Erection date: 2013
{On the small plaque:}
To mark the centenary of Rookfield Garden Village Ltd incorporated 28th August 1913.
{On the larger plaque}
William Brannan Collins 1883 - 1977 designer of Rookfield Garden Village.
N10, Cranmore Way
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rookfield Garden Village
Housing developer. Son of William Jefferies Collins. He and his brother Herbe...
Suburban housing estate in Muswell Hill, originated by William Jefferies Coll...
Each of these foundation stones is at the base of a pillar, reading left to right: Peters, Rowlands, Lewis, Taylor. Disappointingly we h...
It's odd that the plaque is placed here rather than at the almshouses at the other end of the road. Possibly the Count had a house here,...
W. Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage (P654-5) contains a lovely description of daybreak seem from Westminster Bridge c.1898 which...
"Entensive" seems to be a portmanteau (mash-up) of "extensive" and "intensive".
Back in 2022 Matt Brown of Londonist kindly sent us 2 plaques he garnered while Open House visiting the MY Havengore. The yacht was comm...
Astronomer. born Haggerston, London. Correctly predicted the return of a comet in 1758 but died before the date. Invented the diving bell. Died Greenwich.
From City of London : The Pool of London Partnership was established in 1996 and operated in an area stretching East from London Bridge to the Butler's Wharf / St. Katherine's Dock area and include...
Former Cruiser in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
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