Erection date: 28/2/1980
Royalty Mansions was built in 1908 as flats with workrooms for tailors. It was purchased for improvement by the Soho Housing Association in 1978 and after extensive renovation work was opened by HRH the Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh on 28 February 1980.
Architects:
1908 Harold A Woodington
1978 Peter Mishcon and Associates.
W1, Meard Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Royalty Mansions
Built in 1908 as flats with workrooms for tailors. It was purchased for impro...
Harold Arthur Woodington was born in 1866, the seventh of the nine children o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Royalty Mansions
Born at the villa 'Mon Repos', the summer retreat of the Greek royal family, ...
The plaque does not make it clear that the early history all took place at another site; there was no church or chapel on this site until...
In Satellite view it looks like there's a giant chess board in the back garden.
In 1816 to help cure his laudanum addiction Coleridge moved in with his doctor friend James Gilman, in Moreton House, Pond Square. Coleri...
Site of former Bull and George Hotel 18th century coaching inn.
Unusually, we did not take these two pictures; they come from John Newbery a descendant of the man commemorated. We were delighted to fin...
In our photo the blue plaque is immediately to the left of the left-most traffic lights. The Bush House complex consists of this central...
A major 'gravity' sewer running from Hackney to Beckton. Mainly designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and the 'Great Stink' in the Thames of 1858. Our picture shows...
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