Erection date: 1995
Lord Reith, 1889 - 1971, first Director-General of the BBC, lived here, 1924 - 1930.
English Heritage
SW1, Barton Street, 6
The plaque is located on the side of the building in Cowley Street.
2024: The Daily Mail reports that the house is for sale, with lots of photos.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lord Reith - SW1
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the Briti...
First Director-General of the BBC. Born Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. At 6' 6"...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Lord Reith - SW1
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.
Gavin Maxwell, 1914 - 1969, naturalist and writer lived here, 1961 - 1965.
In our photo the plaque can just be seen, inside the entrance to the Court.
These trees were planted in the memory of the 13 children who died in the New Cross fire on the 18th Jan 1981.
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 (Prince of Wales's) District, 1926-1947. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Engineer. His name appears on a stone at Abbey Road DLR Station. We have found references to him on-line as an engineer and chief engineer on several railways in Britain. Abbey Road DLR Station was...
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