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...
This memorial is taking on different configurations in different locations as the station undergoes its renovation. We first saw it, an...
When we first published this c.2009, the pump was on the north-east corner of the Broadwick Street / Poland Street junction. 2018: London...
What do you think Albert might be on about? We doubt many people would guess right. The answer is given in Make Architects pdf for this d...
The two figures on the broken pediment represent lameness and sickness.
This masonry fragment is probably part of a pediment and, to our eye, shows classical, not medieval, features. Perhaps the mansion had la...
