Sir Henry Cole lived here 1879 - 1880. He originated the custom of sending Christmas cards and was largely responsible for the foundation of the Kensington Museum. He was also a great postal reformer.
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
NW3, Elm Row, 3
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Cole - NW3
The first card was designed by John Horsley. The Mail has some pictures of e...
Born Bath. Secretary of the Department of Science and Art. He originated the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Cole - NW3
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
This is the 1901 Victoria Memorial wing of Bolingbroke Hospital. It was built to house the Out-Patients Department and was named for the ...
The texts on the plaques either side of the Whittaker plaque is largely lost. They were painted and only a few shreds remain. The font lo...
Unveiled by by Dr Helen Pankhurst, Sylvia's great granddaughter.
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
Prison reformer. Born Hackney. Travelled throughout the UK and then further afield investigating the state of welfare in prisons and doing what he could to improve it. Died in Kherson in the Ukrain...
Graham Barker was born on 21 June 1946 at 88 Stanfield Road, Winton, Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset), the youngest of the four children of Ronald Charles George Barker (1909-1954) and Zoe Marga...
The foundation stone is low down at the right hand side of the building. Above each of the two statues is a bust, both of the Greek god v...
Chairman of the managers that ran the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. Lord Mayor of London 1874-5.
The tree itself is almost entirely lost, half buried in a modern planting scheme which gives priority to the high brick walls surrounding...
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