WC1, Bloomsbury Way, Kingsley Hotel
This bust on the ornate underbelly of the bow windows is now obscured by the glass awning above the front entrance of the hotel. At the top of the building a stone plaque shows the entwined digits "1900".
Compare and contrast Rembrandt in Thurloe Place.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Kingsley - WC1
Born Devon. Christian Socialist and amateur naturalist. Supported his friend,...
In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...
We think the thickness of the neck has been overdone, even for Churchill. British Pathe have some very dull footage from 1966 of this bus...
This bust is a 20th-century replica after G. B. Comolli, 19th century.
2018: Via Facebook (on head 3 page) Jackie Hoare directed us to the Telegraph article which mentions Palmerston as one of these heads. Th...
These roundels, below the second floor windows, are numbered from the left. Under other windows are: "T. C. C.", "1868", "H.H.". Number ...
Air force officer. Born Douglas Robert Steuart Bader at St John's Wood. Commissioned in the Royal Air Force as a pilot officer in 1930. In 1931, following a crash, he had both legs amputated. He wa...
Born Coberg. Mother of Queen Victoria. Her first marriage to Prince of Leiningen produced two children. Widowed, she married again in 1818 to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent at Coburg, (and again at Ke...
The Austin Friars house, built in 1253, used to occupy this area.
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