Royal Naval Division - WW1
SW1, Horse Guards Parade
Near the base of the four sides of the obelisk water jets into the basin below. The low wall around this fine, plain monument is decorate...
2 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
Chindits
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
Unless we missed it, Cairns' name is not included in the Green Park Memorial Gate's list of VCs, while the other 3 Chindit VC names are.
War dead | WW2
7 subjects commemorated
7 subjects commemorated
Wingate
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
Unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh.
2 subjects commemorated,
4 creators
War Memorial at Paddington Station
W2, Departures Road, Paddington Station, Platform 1
The statue represents a soldier. To the left, in the cream marble, is a carved relief of an anchor with ropes, representing the navy and ...
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Woodford Green Men's Club - WW1
IG8, High Road Woodford Green, 499 - 501
This plaque is very decorative,with an ornate frame, at the top of which is a roundel showing a stag on a shield. It was perhaps not int...
War dead | WW1
13 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
13 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Woodford Green Men's Club - Roberts
IG8, High Road Woodford Green, 499 - 501
This plaque is protected from the rain by a projecting granite shelf, above. The small modern green plaque below reads: "Green Apple Awa...
1 subject commemorated
St Mary's Primrose Hill war memorial - first
NW3, Primrose Hill Road, St Mary's Primrose Hill
The monument is very weather-worn but the two panels containing the names are crisp so we think they have been recently re-carved. WW2 su...
War dead, Civilian war dead | WW1, WW2, Other war
43 subjects commemorated
43 subjects commemorated
Draycott Avenue war memorial
SW3, Cadogan Street, Biddesden House
The memorial is hand-made and all the better for it. The serif typeface is unique and ornate. Framed and boxed behind glass, the manuscr...
War dead | WW1
109 subjects commemorated
109 subjects commemorated
Achilles statue
W1, Hyde Park
Modelled on the statue of Dioscuri in Rome. A gay friend of ours is fond of quoting Larry Olivier on this statue: "the best arse in Lond...
3 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
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