Erection date: 2004
1904 - 2004
To celebrate the centenary of the Entente Cordiale the Franco-British Society has inscribed this stone on the 100th anniversary.
SW1, Knightsbridge, French Embassy
The 50th plaque is on the corner of the building. The centenary plaque is in the porch, where there is also a splendid highly polished embossed copper plaque that displays the French emblem and reads: Ambassade de la République Française.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Entente Cordiale - centenary
Up until the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain and France had been a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Entente Cordiale - centenary
From the picture source website: "Founded in 1924, although its roots go back...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Entente Cordiale - centenary
1904 - 1954 To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Entente Cordiale the Fran...
This open space was reduced in size in 2020-22 to allow the construction of a building on the Purchese Street/Brill Place corner. The re...
Picasso worked here for 2 months in the studio of the Diaghilev's set-painters, Vladimir and Elizabeth Polunin.
Stanfield House - Hampstead Clarkson Stanfield, 1793 - 1867, theatrical scenic artist, marine and landscape painter, Royal Academician, ...
Built as Lansdowne House in 1763, designed by Robert Adam, later altered by George Dance the Younger and then by Robert Smirke, and then ...
This plaque is no longer on display.
Greater London Council Gus Elen 1862 - 1940, music hall comedian, lived here.
Socialist and pacifist. Born Ada Brown at Raunds, Northamptonshire. She joined the West London Mission to work among the London poor, and in 1897 transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement, where she...
From British History: The Hall of Commerce, existing some years ago in Threadneedle Street, was begun in 1830 by Mr. Edward Moxhay, a speculative biscuit-baker, on the site of the old French church...
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