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
When this house was badly damaged by bombs in 1940 Christie and her husband went to live at the modernist Lawn Road flats, now the Isokon...
True to form Gracie sang to the workman as part of the job. Photos at The Official Gracie Fields.
The blue plaque is next to the lower right window of the building, and the foundation stone is on the right of the doorway. The Hunt and...
Above the entrance at the left: "1883". above the two large windows: "Wesleyan Schools". Now, 2021, residential. The plaques, which we h...
Sculptor and painter, renowned for producing controversial works of art that challenged the taboos of his time. Born New York City and arrived in London, via Paris, in 1905. 1909 - 1914 had a studi...
Unveiled on Windrush Day. A very simple design, we think the horizontal obelisk may represent the fallen.
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