To the honoured memory of the men, women & children of this church & parish who died in the war, AD 1939 - 45. R. I. P.
N1, Bletchley Street, 3, Holy Trinity Church
The 2 stone plaques are embedded in the low retaining wall of the flower bed at the foot of the large blue panel. The difference in wording between them is interesting.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hoxton - WW2
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Hoxton - WW2
As usual the active service death toll in WW1 is much greater than that in WW...
Chosen as the featured memorial in December 2004, for lots of reasons. Firstly, it commemorates, amongst others, the Beatles, which shows...
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
Imogen at the archive confirms that this unusual plaque was on site until at least 1988. She could not find any explanation for the remov...
We failed to find this in Dec-Jan 2017. The plaque shows bowls of soup, bread rolls and spoons holding salt, as a reference to the Jewish...
For information about the church, including a good range of photographs see A London Inheritance.
Raised in 1914 and fought in France from August 1915 - end of WW1.
This monument, now lost, was paid for by public subscription. This photo comes from the BBC, where it is captioned: "The life-size bronze...
British secret agent in WW2. Born in Paris as Violette Bushell of a French mother and English father who met in WW1. With 4 brothers she was a bit of a tomboy. From Violette Szabo Museum "The Bushe...
An armillary (or astrolabe) is a model comprising rings showing the positions of astronomical objects. See Simon Wolff for others in London.
Initiator of the uniform Penny Post in 1840. Due to him Britain was the first country to use adhesive stamps and thus we do not have to put the name of our country on them. This is analogous to the...
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