Erection date: 2007
JSSL
Between 1952 and 1954, the Joint Services School for Linguists was located at Coulsdon Common Camp. Here linguists were trained for covert work, their vigilance contributing to national security during the Cold War.
The Royal Air Force Linguists' Association, 2007
CR3, Fox Lane, The Fox pub
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Linguists - Coulsdon
Trained linguists for covert work, mainly with Russian during the Cold War. T...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Linguists - Coulsdon
Grim's Dyke was designed by R. N. Shaw in 1872 for Frederick Goodall. He sold in 1880 to Robert Herriot of Hambros Bank from whom, Gilber...
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...
English Heritage Sir David Low, 1891 - 1963, cartoonist, lived here at no. 33.
Not surprisingly, this plaque has been removed. We believe it was affixed to the gate piers, just outside, the left, west, of our photo.
For more information about this hero click on the picture of the pumping works plaque.
The plaque is in the arcade to the right of our picture. The Museum of London have a map that shows the location of this and other archa...
These plaques are all inside and normally inaccessible but, for the 2018 Pride in London Soho fire station held an open day and we took o...
The 'lamp of maintenance' above the bust is the symbol used by Toc H. This whole memorial is unusual and looks rather odd on this buildin...
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. This Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health, West Ham, 1909 gives more of his name, referring to 'Alderman H. W. Lit...
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