Erection date: 1951
Collingham Garden
The use of this ground for the welfare of children for all time has been bequeathed under the will of John Cyril Lees Collingham who died on May 28th 1936.
Erected by the Governors of the Foundling Hospital 1951.
WC1, Brunswick Square, Coram Family
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Collingham Garden
John Cyril Lees Collingham was born in 1865, the second of the six children o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Collingham Garden
England's first home for abandoned children. Established in 1739 by Captain T...
David Jones CH, 1895 - 1974, artist, soldier, poet, lived at this address 1895 - 1908. London Borough of Lewisham
Greater London Council George Edmund Street, 1824 - 1881, architect, lived here.
City of Westminster Bernard Sunley, 1910 - 1964, contractor and philanthropist, lived and worked here, 1941 - 1958.
The poppy and the British Legion crest both suggest that this memorial is commemorating the British dead of WW1 and WW2 and other wars si...
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Rules®. London's oldest restaurant. In the year Napoleon opened his campaign in Egypt, 1798, Thomas Rule promised his despairing family t...
Son of Henry VII. Born Born Greenwich Palace, as the spare, not the heir but his brother Arthur predeceased him and their father, aged 15, but not before marrying Catherine of Aragon, who later in ...
The plaque does not appear on the latest Google Street View (March 2019) so would have been erected after then.
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