W2, Connaught Place, 16
We photographed this at first just because it is such a lovely window. Then we noticed that the flowers are poppies, well known to commemorate the dead in the two world wars. Surely a war memorial. We emailed the company in this building at the time (2013) asking for more information but got not reply.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Poppy window
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...
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We read the Library Time Machine's post about one artist's obsession with painting the large and ornamental gate piers at the entrance to...
British History Online (1878) says that in about 1795 "the original stone, being broken in two pieces, was removed hence to the corner of...
{On plaque attached to side:} This post box has been painted gold by Royal Mail to celebrate Pete Reed, Gold Medal winner, London 2012 Ol...
We are indebted to John Salmon at Geograph for his photo of this arch. The Portland keystone depicts Sir Hugh Myddelton’s coat of arms.
From the Trust's website: "In 1886, over 20 years before the Carnegie Hero Fund was established in the UK, {Andrew} Carnegie heard about the death of a Dunfermline boy who drowned in an heroic atte...
Greater London Council Thomas Henry Wyatt 1807-1880, architect lived here.
The four Adam brothers: John (1721-1792, born Edinburgh), Robert - the important one, James and William, (1738-1822, suicide) together designed classical buildings. Father was an architect. Initial...
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