Erection date: 16/9/2020
Christine Granville, born Krystyna Skarbek, 1908 - 1952, SOE agent, lived here 1949 - 1952.
English Heritage
W8, Lexham Gardens, 1
Post-WW2 this house in the centre of London’s post-war Polish community was the cheap Shelbourne Hotel, run by the Polish Relief Society.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Christine Granville
Spies, basically (but see below), working for the UK in WW2. Formed by Church...
Wartime special agent. Britain’s first and longest-serving female WW2 secret ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Christine Granville
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
C. S. Forester, 1899 - 1966, novelist, lived here. English Heritage
London County Council Field Marshal, Viscount Allenby, 1861-1936, lived here, 1928-1936.
St James's Square The first stone of this square was laid 1st Novr. 1847.
In a 2012 European Trade Union Institute publication concerning firefighters' working conditions we found: "The motto "save or die trying...
These panels are above a door which we guess leads to the offices above with the shop on the ground floor.
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