Erection date: 4/5/1965
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother declared open this International Students House on the fourth of May 1965.
W1, Great Portland Street, International Students House
In our photo the bust's white plinth can be seen behind the glass doors. This entrance, facing onto a parking lot, is the back of 1-6 in that lovely Georgian Park Crescent.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
International Students House
ISH began life in 1917 as Student Movement House, a social centre opened at 3...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
International Students House
In 1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (descended from the Royal House of Scotland...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
International Students House
First installed on Marylebone Road, vandalism caused this bust to be removed ...
None of these four plaques are visible in our photo (and still this was the best position form which to take the photo!) all being hidden...
This recreated façade is the rear of the hotel on King's Cross Road. In 1969 the authentic Victorian houses were demolished to make way ...
The Whitsun Weddings (recalling a train journey on Whitsun Saturday afternoon in 1955) was voted one of the "Nation's Top 100 Poems" in 1...
The plaque is on the brown wall below the gray canopy. August 2018: this building is threatened with demolition.
Plaque unveiled by the then Mayor of Westminster, Louise Hyams.
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