Plaque

Enemy action

Inscription

This stone was laid by the Chairman, Sir W Alan Gillett, TD DL, on the twenty-fourth day April 1951 to commemorate the stage of reconstruction of the offices & works of The Solicitors Law Stationery Society Ltd.
Destroyed by enemy action during the 1939 - 1945 war.

T P Bennett & Son - Architects
Harry Neal Ltd - Contractors

Site: Enemy action (1 memorial)

EC4, Norwich Street

The window cleaner thought we were photographing him but the real object, of our attentions, the plaque, is on the wall behind his paraphernalia.

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Enemy action

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World War 2

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Solicitors Law Stationery Society Ltd.

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Sir W Alan Gillett, TD DL,

Chairman of The Solicitors Law Stationery Society Ltd. In 1951.

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