This building was completed in September 1960. It replaces buildings destroyed by enemy action in September 1940.
Slater & Uren F.F.R.I.B.A. - Architects
Rush & Tompkins Ltd - Contractors
W1, Oxford Street, John Lewis
The large aluminium sculpture "Winged Figure" on the side of the building is by Barbara Hepworth. See Ornamental Passions for commentary and a picture.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Lewis war damage
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Retail group. Founded by John Spedan Lewis after his father John Lewis gave h...
In our photo the plaque can be seen in the paving between the fair-haired woman with the backpack, and the woman with remarkably white tr...
In our photo, reading left to right: the WW1 memorial plaque is just to the right of the lamppost; the War Memorial Building plaque is on...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
There had been a plaque to Boswell on a house in which he lived in Great Queen Street but when that was demolished in 1914 there were no ...
Greater London Council David Ben-Gurion, 1886-1973, first Prime-Minister of Israel, lived here.
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