This plaque celebrates the restoration of the Avenue Gardens between 1993 & 1996. These gardens were designed by William Andrews Nesfield, 1794 - 1881 & created between 1863 & 1865.
The people in the picture standing on the plaque are doing the obligatory circular walk to read the inscription.
Plaque carved by Richard Kindersley in 1996.
NW1, Regent's Park, Broad Walk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Garden restoration
The Regent's Park plaque has the date of birth as 1794 but this contradicts a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Garden restoration
Sculptor and lettering artist, following his father's David's path. Other Lo...
Greater London Council 'Father' Henry Willis, 1821 - 1901, organ builder, lived here.
Initially we were puzzled why the Corporation of the City of London would erect a plaque so far to the west of its patch, but our colleag...
Left to right down the plaques are: Forsyth, Davis, Garland, Houdini, which we think is the sequence of erection.
Professor Sir Edward Victor Appleton King's College London Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924
English Heritage Count Edward Raczynski, 1891 - 1993, Polish statesman lived here, 1967 - 1993.
Wife of Edward VII, mother of George V. Born at the Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. As an adult gradually became profoundly deaf. It is said the Queen Victoria learnt the British Sign La...
Musician and actor. Born David Robert Jones 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton. The family left here when David was 6 and moved to Plaistow Grove, Bromley. David changed his surname to avoid confusion wi...
Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
Born (on St George's Day) in Covent Garden. Even as he became successful he refused to modify his working-class accent. Lived alone with his father. Had few friends, two mistresses but never marrie...
Cooks' Hall was built circa 1500, escaped the Great Fire and was rebuilt and enlarged 1674. In 1764 a fire partially destroyed the Hall which was again rebuilt but it was totally destroyed by fire...
Literary hostess and patron of the arts. Died in a clinic at Tunbridge Wells. Her Wikipedia page gives much information about her life and confirms that she was born on 6 June 1873 as Ottoline Vio...
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