London County Council
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723 - 1792, portrait painter, lived and died in a house on this site.
WC2, Leicester Square, 48
There are actually 2 plaques, with the same wording, on the building, one at first floor and one at ground floor level.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Joshua Reynolds plaque
Born in Plympton, Devonshire. Came to London in 1753. As a student of Italian...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Joshua Reynolds plaque
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
Plaque put up by Brunel University but we can't work out their connection with the building, or Bruckner.
The lettering is above the right-most potted scrub. Incidentally, the photograph of the building catches a typical London sight - a van d...
It's believed that this plaque was put in place in the 1980s. Looking for an explanation for its presence here we wonder if Michael Simki...
We have found three (identical) plaques on the South Bank riverside recalling this disaster, as follows: Royal Festival Hall; National Th...
Born St Peter’s Vicarage in Bethnal Green, as Geoffrey Harold Woolley, the vicar’s son. The first British Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross. He was serving with the London R...
More information about the VC plaque project at Centenary News.
British History Online refers to this feature as “An eagle on a double Tuscan column, of unknown origin, stands in front of a garden…”. S...
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