Site: St John of Wapping School (3 memorials)
E1, Scandrett Street, 6 - 8
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
E1, Scandrett Street, 6 - 8
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St John of Wapping - charity boy
The school was originally founded in 1695, although its first location is unk...
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St John of Wapping - charity boy
{Beneath bluecoat scholar statues:} Founded A.D. 1695 {below each statue:} Gi...
We have a query concerning the designe of this statue . . . Firstly, note that in 1883 Boehm had already produced a similar Napier statu...
Unveiled by the Duke of Connaught and we thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. This i...
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
This statue was made in 1866 and erected in front of the War Office, then at Cumberland House, Pall Mall (now replaced with 89, the RAC b...
The life-sized statue is a self-portrait by Atherton. Our photos do not show what we found most interesting about this statue: the reali...
Soldier and member of the Royal Family. Born at Sandringham, third son of George V. Married Alice. Parents of Richard, who inherited the title. Governor-General of Australia 1944-7, returning t...
Sportsman and journalist. Born Charles Burgess Fry in Croydon. Primarily his sport was cricket, but he was also an athlete and played in a football cup final. He taught at Charterhouse School and p...
Former cadet of the Air Training Corps - 296th (Stoke Newington) Squadron. Died in WW2. Sergeant Kenneth William Owen, aged 19, (Air Gunner) killed in bombing raid on Mailly, near Paris. The abov...
The plaque is on the pavement to the left of the war memorial. More information about the VC plaque project at Centenary News.
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