{Inscribed on the large stone medallion:}
This memorial to the men of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire who fell in the Great War, 1914 - 1919 is erected by the London Society of East Anglians.
EC2, Liverpool Street Station
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
East Anglians - WW1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
East Anglians - WW1
Apart from erecting the Liverpool Street Station memorial and commissioning t...
The typeface used on the sides of the monument replicates that used in war-time ration books. The unveiling was one of the ceremonies to ...
This church, built 1856, was initially known as All Saints, Stonebridge but we've seen it referred to as All Saints, Haggerston, and also...
A City of Westminster information plaque on the ground at the centre of the traffic island provides the following: The Christ Church war...
"They died that we might live." is a quite common inscription on war memorials and sounds like a quotation but we cannot identify a source.
A large crucifix is quite common in the forecourt of a church. This one, planted in a pile of stones, a cairn, reminds us of one in High...
Established to maintain London Bridge. Named after Bridge House, the original administrative and maintenance centre located where St Olaf House now is. Originally funded by tolls from London Bridge...
Third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. Born York Cottage, Sandringham Estate. Her elder brothers became, in quick succession, Edward VIII and George VI. She married the sixt...
There is sheet music dated 1873 for a song "True for ever" with words and music by Lady John Manners and Virginia Gabriel. Could this be the same LJM who opened our garden? We hope so.
The plaque refers to "Thomas Branden, Duke of Suffolk". We have two problems with this: firstly "Branden" is elsewhere consistently spelt...
Physician, benefactor of the British Museum and an early benefactor to the Chelsea Physic Garden. Responsible for the addition of milk to chocolate to produce a palatable drink. Born Killyleagh, Ir...
Person, Benefactor, Medicine, Museums / Libraries, Race Issues, Science, Ireland
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them