John Gilbert Winant, 1889 - 1947, United States Ambassador, 1941 - 1946, lived here.
Greater London Council
W1, Aldford Street, 7
Fixed to the wall above this plaque is a small black relief depicting five children playing in a pastoral setting. It's rather lovely and we can't explain it.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Winant
United States ambassador to Great Britain 1941-46. Born New York City. Succee...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Winant
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
The plaque is actually a resin copy of the one that was attached to the original memorial for the Walworth Scouts drowned at Leysdown. Th...
These listed buildings are now used by the Royal Foundation of St. Katharine. Up until the bombs of 7 September 1940 there was a church ...
2017: The Telegraph reports this house is for sale with pictures of the interior.
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...
Clissold Crescent was part of the Willow Estate, whose history is well-covered at Local Local History, but Brooks is not mentioned there....
Hugh Reginald Baldwin was born on 4 March 1898, the second of the three children of Edward Thomas Baldwin (1847-1937) and Emily Henry Louise Stoker (1866-1936). His birth was registered in the 1st ...
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