{Carved on the wall to the left of the front door:}
The Lord Mayor's National Thanksgiving Fund, 1950, gave and endowed this building.
Carved on the wall to the right of the front door:
"William Goodenough House, 1957
Goodenough College"
WC1, Mecklenburgh Square, Goodenough House
This building replaced houses destroyed or badly damaged by WW2 bombs, one of which forced Virginia Woolf to vacate.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Goodenough House
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Goodenough House
This is not a college but an organisation that provides residential accommoda...
This is where Carlyle died. We know 'Sc.' indicates the sculptor, but 'Delt.'? We asked a member of the museum staff who told us it i...
The image of this lost plaque comes from Wikipedia, where the story of this plaque on 41 Maitland Park Road is told. First erected on 22 ...
The Biblical quotation at the end of the inscription is from 1 John 3:16. This is a very unusual style for a WW1 memorial and we think i...
On 26 January 1950 the Constitution of India came into force and India declared itself a Republic.
Unveiled by Sir Williams’ son, Jake Empson. At no 71 Empson lived in the the first floor flat.
This sculpture commemorates the use of London Fields as a grazing area for livestock, a stop on the route for livestock and produce on it...
The vehicle used for the delivery was the Cavell Van, the railway wagon which had previously been used for two ceremonial journeys from D...
From BBC: "A boy of 16 has been charged with the murder of an 18-year-old stabbed to death on a playing field in south-west London. Police found Hazrat Wali fatally injured in Craneford Way, Twicke...
Archaeologist and second husband of Agatha Christie. Born Wandsworth. Married Christie in 1930. WW2 served in North Africa. After Christie's death Mallowan married a second time. Died Devon.
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