"Giro", Ein treuer begleiter! London im februar 1934, Hoesch
{a true companion!}
SW1, Carlton House Terrace, 9
This space, including the stylish garage ramp, was once the garden to number 9. The building's current occupants, The Royal Society, provide interesting details of its history.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Giro & von Hoesch
German ambassador from 1932 to 1936. Well-liked by British politicians but hi...
The poem was apparently written soon after the memorial was completed. Photo of the engraving. The “ML, 7 April 1952” is probably the f...
The original was in lead and gilt and was, apparently, London's first outdoor statue of a soldier. The site was originally intended for ...
We can't identify any river that ran through here (the Fleet would be the nearest) so perhaps these come from a windmill. But it's not pa...
This arch originally formed an entrance to the tenement block of model dwellings, Rothschild Buildings.
This 1820s terrace, numbers 338 - 344, of semi-detached villas was listed in 1975 but that doesn't tell us what happened in 1903 that was...
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
Athlete. Born John Michael Landy in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Forty-six days after Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile, he broke the record again. He is probably best remembere...
GBE, DLit.Lord Mayor in 1989.
Architect with London County Council in 1905. Born Devonport, Plymouth.
The 9th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles), was formed on 1 April 1908 by the amalgamation of regiments under the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907. T...
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