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...
This plaque was unveiled exactly 100 years after the deeds that won Dimmer the VC.
This plaque is on the first building in Mansion House Street but actually in St Mildred's Court.
From the wording and the style, these plaques must have been erected along with the 1877 clock tower. The impetus behind both the constru...
We found three English Hedonist plaques in Whitecross Street in early 2013. Please let us know if there are more that we missed.
With the two other architects Sir Herbert Baker and Alexander T Scott, Vernon Helbing built London House, Goodenough College in WC1 in 1972. It is now Grade II listed.
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