Erection date: 9/9/2012
Nike (pronounced Neekay)
Ancient Greek goddess of victory.
Spirit of the Games sculptor, Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis.
We think the last line of the plaque means that Kougioumtzis is the sculptor of the Spirit of the Games, not, as we first read it that he is, himself, the Spirit of the Games who is also the sculptor.
SE18, Number 1 Street, Main Guardhouse
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
Sculptor. Born in Drama, Macedonia, Greece. 2018: Versions of his statue of ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
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Charles and his wife Anna came to London and lived at first 15 and then 39A Marchmont Street so that he could live close while he read hi...
This house was erected in 1760 for the Earl of Egremont. Occupied by Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, it became known as Cambridge House. ...
In our photo the plaque can be seen through the gap in the railings, laid into the ground in front of the grass.
The Parish Hall, St Mary's, Bryanston Square. This stone was laid by H. R. H. The Princess Christian, 20th October 1897. Rev. H. Russel...
Barbara Mary Austin was born on 2 August 1920 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, the youngest of the four children of Edward Neville Lefroy Austin (1873-1924) and Nora Frances Aust...
Bronze statue erected in 1789 showing the king who had commissioned the rebuilding of Somerset House. The statue is awash with nautical a...
London County Council F. E. Smith, Earl of Birkenhead, 1872 - 1930, lawyer and statesman, lived here.
Architects. Later Vernon Helbing joined the firm. Sir Herbert Baker was one of the four principal architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission, See Blomfield for the others.
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