Erection date: 17/7/2013
V. K. Krishna Menon, 1896 - 1974, campaigner for Indian Independence, lived here.
English Heritage
Tony Benn knew Menon personally.
N6, Langdon Park Road, 30
The Hindu claims that this was "where he lived when he first moved to the city" and "where he lived from 1929 to 1931" all of which contradicts the claim on his NW1 plaque that he lived there "1924 to 1947".
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Krishna Menon - N6
Politician who campaigned for India's independence from Britain. Lived in Lon...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Krishna Menon - N6
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Note that, despite its blueness, this is not an English Heritage plaque.
The architects of the 1933 building were Mewes & Davis (inscribed on a stone near the entrance), and of the 1964 building, Julian Sof...
{Next to the emblem of the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae, (Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary). The Belgian connection T...
A nice art deco entrance. Built by the LCC on the Blackstock estate.
English Heritage John Groom, 1845 - 1919, philanthropist, who founded workshops for disabled girls nearby, lived here.
Researching a plaque about West Hackney National Schools we did not expect to find the supposed straight-laced Victorians gleefully publishing a pamphlet giving the details brought out in the trial...
The centenary plaque is on the west side of the western pillar at the main entrance. The brass plaque is on the floor of that entrance lo...
Jack Cornwell V.C. 1900 - 1916 Adjacent to this site stood Clyde Cottage birthplace of John Travers Cornwell the youngest recipient of t...
Born 3 Cecil Street, Stepney. Clerk to the London County Council, folklorist and historian. Died at home, Buckinghamshire.
Person, History, Politics & Administration, Tourism / Traditions
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