{On the plaque fixed to the front of the stone:}
To the glorious memory of those members of the staff of the National Physical Laboratory who gave their lives for their country.
{followed by two lists each of 5 names in alphabetical order, under the headings:}
1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945
The National Archive BIS War Memorials has research about all the names on this war memorial.
TW11, Hampton Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
National Physical Laboratory stone war memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Born Scotland but brought up in Kent. His WW2 job involved defusing mines wa...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
National Physical Laboratory stone war memorial
The NPL's history page concentrates on their work (e.g. they weighed Concorde...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
National Physical Laboratory stone war memorial
NPL National Phusical Laboratory Liriodendron Tulipifera Tulip tree This tree...
Some of the names on the memorial are illegible. We have found a list on the War Memorials Register and another on the Lewisham War Memor...
We thank Tom Long for the information about the crest.
These two houses now seem to have a single address and, like most of the street, are occupied by lawyers. We asked at reception for info...
The first memorial was obviously sinking into the ground when our photograph was taken in 2013. We returned in 2015 and photographe...
Si Je Puis ('If I can' or 'I will do it if I can') is Morris's motto inscribed in the porch at the Red House.
This listed building was designed by Vernor Rees in 1926, one of the first steel-framed buildings ever erected. The balconies are decorat...
The 5 piers on the City Road boundary each carry a golden inscription. We list them here south to north. There is a common misapprehens...
Created following the passing of the Regent's Canal Bill in July 1812, to cut a new canal from the Grand Junction Canal in Paddington to Limehouse and the Thames. John Nash was a large shareholder;...
For an idea of what this area used to be like see this 1894ish map. It was all redeveloped following the 1928 flood. This block was desig...
Reginald Herman Tribe was born on 26 May 1881 in Chatham, Kent, the eldest of the four children of Herman Thomas Bedingfield Tribe (1855-1894) and Alice Mary Tribe, née Holder (b. c1860). His birth...
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