This building was the Head Office of W.H. Smith & Son from 1920 to 1976. The above sign was damaged by shrapnel from a German bomb during an air raid on the night of 10th October 1940.
WC2, Portugal Street
There are 3 plaques, all on the north face of this building, to the right of the entrance shown in the photograph.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna opened a small newsvendors in 1792 in Li...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
This plaque was placed on the Hospital's centenary. WH Smiths had given the H...
OK, this is not actually a memorial but it's too good to exclude on the basis...
Each of these foundation stones is at the base of a pillar, reading left to right: Peters, Rowlands, Lewis, Taylor. Disappointingly we h...
In the 1930s, the date of the plaque, this building was occupied, 1868 - 1964, by the Sisters of the Misericorde but we still cannot expl...
Plaque unveiled by Paul Merton (a short video with some appropriate clips of Chaplin edited in).
The Latin motto "Primus Omnium" translates as "first of all", referring to the fact that the Marine Police was established over 30 years ...
St Olav's Church was designed by John Love Seaton Dahl. Crown Prince Olav was present at the laying of the foundation stone, 1926, and th...
David John Stokoe was born on 7 July 1966 and his birth was registered in the Havering registration district. His mother's maiden name was Woolgar. He was a firefighter attached to Silvertown fire...
Lord Mayor of London in 1995, from the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards.
Richard Godfrey was born on 8 May 1911 the seventh of the ten children of William Godfrey (1873-1922) and Jessie Elizabeth Godfrey née Utley (1873-1967). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter...
Father, mother and sister to Miss Ellen Reardon who, via a bequest, erected drinking fountains in their memory. Margaret died 13 January 1876. Ellen died in 1880 so the parents were dead by then too.
2021: Karen Kirkham has kindly written to say "The monument, designed by my late father-in-law R. M. P. Ludlow, was erected in 1990." Th...
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