Erection date: 7/11/2014
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Captain John Vallentin, the South Staffordshire Regiment, 7th November 1914.
SE1, Lambeth Road, St Mary's Gardens
The plaque is laid in the ground, to the right in our photo. The building which now houses the Garden Museum used to be St Mary at Lambeth church. These gardens, in the photo, were created in 1932 as a result of the building of a new Lambeth Bridge.
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John Vallentin VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Born as John Franks Vallentin in the parish of St Mary-at-Lambeth (the church...
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John Vallentin VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
The lettering is above the right-most potted scrub. Incidentally, the photograph of the building catches a typical London sight - a van d...
The plaque is on the brown wall below the gray canopy. August 2018: this building is threatened with demolition.
English Heritage Roger Fenton, 1819 - 1869, photographer, lived here.
The Sun A public house called the Sun stood on this site from at least 1722. In September 1940 a wartime bomb landed on the pub killing 2...
Spenser to the left; Bacon to the right. The frieze announces proudly 'Islington Central Library'. Above the keystone of the porch the da...
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