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 ...
The first birth control clinic was opened by Dr. Marie Stopes in 1921 at Holloway and removed here in 1925.
A network of almost secret passageways and a courtyard link Suffolk Street to Whitcomb Street. The passageway containing the two plaque...
This temporary plaque (photo from GoWestLondon) was fixed near to the spot where the bench used in filming the opening credits for the te...
Turnpike Lane is a station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground.
The portrait medallions are on the right hand flank wall, on Cumberlow Avenue. Reading left to right: W. F. R. Stanley; Mrs W. F. Stanley...
This text is ambiguous about where the photo was taken: at this site or at the Napier Shipyard? Wikipedia is clear that the chain was mad...
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Clerk for the managers that ran the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. May be "Jnd.", either way we can't think what it might stand for.
Student at Eltham High School, who co-designed the Buddy Bear statue in Woolwich.
These stones are laid in the ground to the right of the wreath that can be seen in our photograph. Left to right they are: Suez, Gang Sho...
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