Erection date: 1919
{On the panel, facing the Palace:}
Erected by "The Silver Thimble Fund", 1919.
{On the panel, facing the pond:}
In memory of our soldiers who fought in the Great War, 1914 - 1918.
W2, Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens
The person crouching in our photo is an artist, painting Kensington Palace. See Thimble shelters - north for more information.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thimble shelters - south
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thimble shelters - south
Miss {Elizabeth} H. E. Hope-Clarke of Wimbledon, inspired by her own damaged ...
Alexis Soyer, 1810 - 1858, chef, author of cookbooks, inventor, lived here. City of Westminster
This building is commonly known as the Royal Academy (of Arts). The wings of the building are occupied by a number of learned societies, ...
This plaque is on the right-hand fork of the path close to the Camberwell Green air-raid memorial. It is unusually wide in its scope of c...
We were curious as to why this Corporation of the City of London plaque differs so much from their usual blue and gold design. We contact...
These people do seem to have been obsessed with the "Coronation Year". As well as these two memorials there is a large building behind th...
Plaque unveiled by Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Actor, director, writer. Born Streatham.
The ghost was covering quite a large area - St Paul's Churchyard was at what is now the Hammersmith roundabout, three quarters of a mile ...
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