Erection date: 1905
This building was the gift of Andrew Carnegie, AD 1905.
W6, Shepherds Bush Road, Hammersmith Carnegie Library
Milton sitting on the left; Shakespeare on the right; Carnegie's cartouche is inside the porch, above the door.
Erected in 1905, Carnegie Legacy confirms that, as for the Islington Library, the architect was Henry Hare and the sculptor was Schenck.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Carnegie - Hammersmith
Industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Born Dunfermline, Scotla...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Carnegie - Hammersmith
Annie Besant, 1847 - 1933, social reformer, lived here in 1874. London County Council
From The-River-Thames: "The Corporation of the City of London built the first pound lock entirely of timber here in 1815 along with the l...
British History Online gives: "Percy Bysshe Shelley {} took lodgings at No. 26 as a tenant of Thomas Lillo on 9th November, 1814. Shelley...
Prior to about 1840 this site was occupied by Wellington Cricket Ground. The almshouses were built as part of a complex of buildings inc...
Queen Victoria once rested at the Fox and Crown after her horses had bolted down the hill and she had had rather a shock. The landlord, ...
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