Erection date: 12/12/1989
This plaque was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Simon Mabey to mark the re-opening of Charing Cross Station, 12 December 1989.
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WC2, Strand, Charing Cross Station
There are two plaques below the clock. The upper, smaller one is for the reopening, the lower one is for the US President.
Ian Visits has a good post about this station from its inception.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charing Cross Station - reopening
The original station was built on the site of Hungerford Market and opened in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charing Cross Station - reopening
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Charing Cross Station - reopening
The Guardian has a detailed description of the procession from Charing Cross ...
Margaret Rutherford, 1892 - 1972, theatre and film actress born and raised here. 2010 Wandsworth Council
Hill House (or The Hill), was occupied after his father's death by John Gurney Hoare. In 1896 his son, Sir Samuel Hoare, sold it to Georg...
Thomas Attwood, 1765 - 1838, composer and organist at St Paul's Cathedral and the Chapel Royal, lived and died here. Erected by the Wheel...
The plaques are down at skirting-board level, one is hidden by the table outside the PDSA and the other is largely hidden by the pedestri...
Almost all of the lettering (lead letters pinned into stone) has dropped off, or been taken off, so most of the names are illegible - the...
The bomb landed at the junction of Boothby, Giesbach and Grovedale Roads, with residents from the adjacent St John’s Way also suffering in the attack. 35 adults and children died, and 219 were inju...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
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