This home for nurses, the gift of the British War Relief Society of America and other friends of King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on November 21st 1957.
{Above the text the letters ‘E' and ‘R' entwine around ‘VII'}.
W1, Beaumont Street, Agnes Keyser House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nurses' home
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nurses' home
In 1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (descended from the Royal House of Scotland...
This inscription is on a large slate stone positioned in the ground at the entrance into what is now Starbucks so it is tramped over by a...
The Romans were in Britain AD 43 - 410 so we think the '900s' on the plaque refers to the period (early medieval) when the name 'Watling ...
Here lived Philip Henry Gosse, 1810 - 1888, zoologist. Sir Edmund Gosse, 1849 - 1928, writer and critic born here. Greater London Council
The H.G. Wells Society H.G. Wells, author, 1866 - 1946, lived and worked here, 1930 - 1936.
Present at the unveiling: founding members Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook.
