"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...
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Both the Egyptian escalator and associated decorations and the bronze statue were designed by Bill Mitchell. The pyramid shrine was insta...
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In 1923 the Prince of Wales was Edward, who later became, briefly, King Edward VIII.
Another sad, sad, roadside shrine to a victim of youth crime, this one a knifing. Amongst all the flowers and expressions of grief are so...
Peters took out a lease on the derelict wharf and a house on Ballast Quay in 1963. Here she created a communal riverside garden from which grew a landscape business, Union Wharf Nursery Garden. Pr...
From the National Theatre website: "The Royal National Theatre Foundation may be able to assist employees, former employees or others who work or have worked at the National Theatre who are sufferi...
Opened by Frank Bearman on the site of a former vicarage. By 1906 he had purchased a nearby furniture shop, and in 1910 opened an arcade to match the larger department stores in London. It claimed ...
A physician specialising in kidney problems, he was credited with the discovery of Bright's Disease (now called Glomerulonephritis or Nephritis) through his research on patients who exhibited drops...
The architects of the 1933 building were Mewes & Davis (inscribed on a stone near the entrance), and of the 1964 building, Julian Sof...
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