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Henriette Raphael gave her name to the first purpose-built nurses' home at Guy's Hospital which opened in 1902 & was funded by donations from her husband, Henry Raphael & her sons Walter & Herbert. The home was the first of its kind in London.
SE1, Great Maze Pond, Guy's Hospital - Memorial Park
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Entrance to the Henriette Raphael building
Wife to Henry Raphael, a wealthy Jewish banker, and mother to his 12 children...
The Henriette Raphael Building at Guy's Hospital.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Entrance to the Henriette Raphael building
Henry Lewis Raphael had 12 children with his wife Henriette. Walter, the 6th ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Entrance to the Henriette Raphael building
The Henriette Raphael Nurses' Home, erected by Henry Lewis Raphael in memory ...
All four sides sport a low relief portrait of Queen Victoria in wreathed roundels half-way up.
As our detail picture we have this most unlikely-looking crocodile, grinning manically despite his legs looking all wrong.
The Harmsworth plaque is inside the entrance lobby to the Museum, just to the right of our photo.
We don't normally collect benches but large, unusual plaques like this one are irresistible.
By the time we arrived, 6 days after the collision, the flowers had already gone and only this sad note was left.
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