Erection date: 17/5/2022
Elizabeth line
Officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen on Tuesday 17 May 2022 during Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
This must have been one of the Queen's last plaques.
W2, Eastbourne Terrace, Paddington station
It seems to be just lucky chance that the colour chosen for the Elizabeth line was the colour used to characterise the Platinum jubilee.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Elizabeth line
The 70th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II, the first such c...
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Elizabeth line
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...
Plaque unveiled by Darcey Bussell. 'Prima Ballerina Assoluta' is a title, normally given by the ballet company, that is rarely conferred,...
Both memorial stones were originally located in the nearby St James's Church (in Fore Street, south of Cowper Road), which has been conve...
The Christopher Jones statue is on the left of the picture, and Prince Lee Boo's tomb in the centre (next to the rather incongruous child...
Strond is an old spelling of 'strand' meaning a beach.
The plaque refers to "Thomas Branden, Duke of Suffolk". We have two problems with this: firstly "Branden" is elsewhere consistently spelt...
Painter. Born in Pöchlarn, Austria. He studied in Vienna and worked in Berlin for many years where he painted expressionist portraits and did illustrations for the periodical 'Der Sturm'. Branded a...
Supporters of the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple.
Investment banker. Chairman of Beechams Pills Ltd in 1936. Chairman of Covent Garden Properties Company Limited, in 1933. The most interesting fact we can discover is that he moved into 68 Brook St...
Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900. London was first targeted with airships in May 1915 and initially found defence very difficult. Searchlights and incendiary ammunition helped to de...
So the churchyard must have occupied the ground between the church and the river.
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