On this site stood Rockhills, the home of Sir Joseph Paxton MP, 1852 - 1865, Sir Henry Buckland, 1922 - 1956.
The London Borough of Bromley
The Crystal Palace Foundation
SE19, Westwood Hill
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Paxton’s house ‘Rockhills'
General manager of Crystal Palace 1914-49. Henry James Buckland was born in M...
Architect responsible for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Born Milton Bryan, Bedf...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Paxton’s house ‘Rockhills'
Formerly part of Kent, it has been part of Greater London since 1963.
The Jarrett plaque is laid into the tarmac path between this pillar and the Kennington Park air-raid memorial.
This small enamel plaque looks as if it was installed when the cottages were first constructed. There may be eight versions of this littl...
This plaque is not particularly interesting visually so we are showing the roof-top sculpture instead, which is.
Opened in 1754 as the burial ground for St Andrew's Holborn but full and closed by 1850. The site now occupied by the splendidly Art Deco...
City of Westminster Edward Meryon, MD, FRCP, 1807 - 1880, first described muscular dystrophy, lived here, 1846 - 1880.
