SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. Laid into the platform are four bronze badges, anti-clockwise: RAF, RSF, Met Police, WAFF. They are rather fine so we have treated each one as a memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - RAF
Formed 1st April 1918 at Hotel Cecil, 80 the Strand where it had its first he...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - RAF
In 1824, aged 12, Dickens lodged in Lant Street in a house belonging to the Vestry Clerk of St George's Church - we take this to mean St ...
Stephen Pearce, 1819 - 1904, portrait and equestrian painter, lived here, 1856 - 1884.
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847 - 1929, pioneer of women's suffrage, lived and died here. London County Council
The round plaque is on the wall under the main entrance canopy, high up, near the first "E" of Empire. The three brass plaques are in the...
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Already a naval lieutenant, he, with his two brothers, supported Cromwell and served as a colonel in the new Model Army. MP for Minehead. Died Dover and was buried Westminster Abbey, where there is...
Born, son of Elizabeth and John Dickens, at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth (where there is a museum). For a map showing many of his London addresses see Londonist. His family were so p...
This is an unusual plaque - painted on a large wooden board that looks like it was intended to be somewhere more populated, holding more ...
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