Marcus Garvey - Willesden Library
NW10, High Road, 95, Willesden Green Old Library Building
The bust was unveiled on Garvey's 129th birthday, and is now inside a glass case in the museum at the library, but we cannot discover who...
The bust was unveiled on Garvey's 129th birthday, and is now inside a glass case in the museum at the library, but we cannot discover who...
We think that hiding below hundreds of layers of whitewash is a fine relief bust of Shakespeare. This is at the top of the pargeting (dec...
Willesden Green Library was established in 1894 following a poll of the ratepayers of Willesden.
2025: Mr Little put us on to the excellent Ladbroke Association where we found: "The Red Lion Arcade at Nos. 165-169 was the first arcade...
The decorative shield is in the pediment. The Iyengar plaque is below the window on the left. Although the New Cross (Equitable) Buildin...
New Cross (Equitable) Building Society was established in 1866 but did not move into this building (and presumably erect the shield) unti...
The campaign to make this road safer has been running for 10 years.
The blue plaque was unveiled by Quant's son Orlando Plunkett Greene in September 2019 and by August 2020 it had been replaced with the pu...
Viewed from the tow path this bridge is modern in design but the plaque was almost certainly erected to mark its opening in the 19th cent...