{In the scroll at the top, French for 'My faith in God':}
Ma foi en dieu.
This stone, the first in the new street, was laid by Robert Edwin Villiers, 8 June 1885. Reconstructed by Trollope and Coles Ltd 1988.
Peto Bros. Builders
W1, Shaftesbury Avenue, Trocadero Centre
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Robert Edwin Villiers
Managed the London Pavilion theatre from 1886 to 1890. Robert Edwin Villiers...
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875 - 1956) author, journalist and originator of the 'Clerihew', lived here 1911 - 1927.
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
The plaque is low down on the house adorned with scaffolding, so low that it suggests he lived in the basement flat.
We chickened out of deciding where to put the apostrophe in 'Mothers'.
This street was first known as Playhouse Yard. The site is now occupied by an electricity sub-station.
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
Traveller and ethnologist. Born Islington as Mary Henrietta Kingsley. Only after the death of her parents could she fulfil her aspirations of travel. Her first book, "Travels in West Africa", publi...
The plaque is one of a series in the Burgess Park Heritage Trail. They are usually fixed to railings by plastic ties, so may not be desig...
Having already identified four (see Rifle Brigade) we are always interested in who modelled for soldiers on war memorials. At Great War F...
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