The relief shows a pair of compasses, globe, hour-glass, rolled document, anchor, some cogs and two buildings on the Festival site: the Dome and the Skylon.
W1, Oxford Street, 213
This building was put up in 1951 by architects Ronald Ward and Partners. Ornamental Passions has an excellent report on the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - Science
'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - Science
The relief shows the Royal Festival Hall, surrounded by a violin, saxophone, ...
These reliefs are high up, at either end of the building. Not really memorials so normally we would not have collected these lovely cheru...
Phillip Ward-Jackson in his encyclopaedic "Public Sculpture in the City of London" identifies these reliefs as representing the four elem...
Portland stone. Charmingly modern relief sculpture showing 13 sport participants (including 3 women) all of whom carry their racquets an...
The building boasted (at least) two of these plaques, but this was the only one that we could see in 2015. An odd dolphin, with a tail m...
Lookup London draws attention to the signature on the side of the boat. It is very different from Kremer's other signatures but our zoome...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
The monument, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, celebrates Victorian achievement and Prince Albert's passions and i...
Actor. Born Jennifer Ann Agutter in Taunton, Somerset. Best remembered for playing the role of 'Bobbie' in the 1970 film version of the Railway Children. She had played the same role in a televisio...
Physicist. Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies 1953 at King's College London with Franklin, Gosling, Stokes and Wilkins. Our picture shows, Left to right: Gosling, Wilson, Wilkins, Stokes. In...
A London Inheritance has a photo of this plaque shortly after its unveiling on a remaining wall of a bombed building.
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