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...
Memorials to murdered young people can be very moving, and extensive. This one used to stretch for more than 7 metres along the side of t...
This monument is a tall, triangular, pyramidal, glass case containing a steel rule, 2 metres long, marked off in millimetres. That's a p...
Along the front edge of the bench 10 sets of deviders are carved and along the top of the back 6 of the Masons' shield.
Diana Mitford as Polyhymnia the muse of sacred poetry. At the time the mosaic was made Diana's fascist leanings were possibly not yet app...
All four sides sport a low relief portrait of Queen Victoria in wreathed roundels half-way up.
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