Erection date: 22/4/1903
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Mission founded 1887
Buildings erected 1903
This column was fixed by Albert E. Reed Esq, April 22nd 1903.
EC1, City Road
The building is also known as the Imperial Hall. Up the top, in an Art Nouveau swirl the building is dated 1903. The plaques are, left to right: Reed, McArthur, Strathcona, Marshall.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Leysian Mission - Reed
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge i...
Paper manufacturer and Weslian preacher. Born Devon. Established a newspri...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Leysian Mission - Reed
Mission founded 1887 Buildings erected 1903 This column was fixed by Sir Hor...
{Either side of a cartouche/shield:} Mission founded 1887 Buildings erected 1...
{Either side of a cartouche/shield:} Mission founded 1887 Buildings erected 1...
Greater London Council Mustapha Reschid Pasha, 1800 - 1858, Turkish statesman and reformer, lived here as Ambassador in 1839.
Plaques are designed to be laid into brickwork, as this was on its first building. A rather complicated frame arrangement has been necess...
Jim Marshall OBE, 1923 - 2012, founder of Marshall Amplification
2025: This 18th century house was for sale and we learnt that it was once a public house. Also Sting, who had been living in Bayswater, ...
We are reasonbly happy with our identifcation of this head.
Writer, actor, director and comedian. Born in Ilford, Essex. Described as one of the strangest people in Britain. He trained at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), but never fitted into any conve...
Actor. Born as William Henry Pratt at the house with the plaque. His acting career began in the theatre in Canada, where he adopted his stage name. Arriving in Hollywood he appeared in dozens of si...
Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio, Canada, USA
We have visited this area many times, but only recently noticed this well-hidden little plaque.
Ernest Harold Canning was born on 10 August 1895, the fifth of the seven children of Frederick George Canning (1860-1921) and Janet Canning née Barnes (b.1854). His birth was registered in the 3rd ...
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