Erection date: 25/7/1928
This day nursery was opened on the 25th of July 1928 by HRH Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles. Founded 1906.
NW3, Pond Street, 27-29
This fine building was probably erected in 1928 replacing a previous building, which we bet didn't have a ball-court on the roof.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Day nursery
2012 and we are delighted to report that this building is still a day nursery...
Third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. Born York Cott...
Here lived Philip Henry Gosse, 1810 - 1888, zoologist. Sir Edmund Gosse, 1849 - 1928, writer and critic born here. Greater London Council
Tony Hancock, 1924 - 1968, comedian, lived here, 1947 - 1948. The Dead Comics Society
Dr Jabez Bunting, 1779 - 1858, leading Wesleyan Methodist, lived here, 1833 - 1858. Historic House - London Borough of Islington
Gerald Finzi, 1901 - 1956, English composer, was born here. City of Westminster
"They shall grow not old..." is by Binyon. "When you go home..." is by Maxwell. But we cannot identify the "...marching with their comrad...
