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...
The house is a museum, open to the public and contains many pictures of Johnson and his friends. The Barber plaque is on the railings bel...
{Next to the emblem of the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae, (Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary). The Belgian connection T...
Our colleague Andrew Behan has done some detailed research on these names and also found a newspaper report of the incident at Trove (The...
This site has evolved over the years from flowers place around the tree to become the shrine that it is today. The steps were probably i...
West Brompton Station opened by Glenda Jackson MP, Minister for Transport in London, 1st June 1999.
From the Trust's website: "In 1886, over 20 years before the Carnegie Hero Fund was established in the UK, {Andrew} Carnegie heard about the death of a Dunfermline boy who drowned in an heroic atte...
This small plaque is on the inner gate pier to the right of our photo. We like the way they have copied the idea and the style of the 18...
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