Erection date: 27/9/2005
City of Westminster
Headquarters of the Norwegian Government-in-exile located here, 1940-1945.
Royal Norwegian Embassy
The official Norway site provides useful background information for this plaque. See also the Norwegian gratitude stone.
SW7, Princes Gate, Kingston House North
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Norwegian Government-in-exile
The Norwegian government and parliament refused to accept a German ultimatum ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Norwegian Government-in-exile
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Appointed as Norwegian Ambassador to the Court of St James's (i.e. the UK) in...
The halo and the baby would suggest the woman represented is the Virgin Mary but she may also represent the less revered mothers who were...
William Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965 Novelist and playwright lived here 1919 - 1923 "To acquire a habit for reading is to construct for y...
Ronzo Crunchy the Credit Crunch Monster, 2008 - 2010, official mascot of the global recession.
Sir Alan Cobham, 1894 - 1973, aviator, was born here. English Heritage
Nigerian-born. Moved to England where she attended school. A Southwark resident for 22 years, in 2010. CBE.
Lived in by Leonard and Virginia Woolf 1924-39. Our picture source also has some photos of the interior, and explains that, even though they have moved out, the destruction of this house affected V...
Treasurer associated with St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1702.
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