Royal Scots Fusiliers
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.
Bill Wallis is described on the plaque as 'ARP Stretcher Bearer'. Which we take as a prompt to provide a link to the great Stretcher Rail...
Plaque unveiled by Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellan.
Our picture, just, shows the entire southern side of this street. This foundation stone was laid in 1922 and the Vaughan Estate opened i...
We were more than usually delighted to find this memorial. This gothic ruin of a garden is so lovely we wanted a way of including it on L...
The AAGBI's website provides: "On 19 December 1846, Francis Boott, an American botanist who had heard the news from Boston, watched denta...
Sir Henry Irving, 1838 - 1905, actor, lived here, 1872 - 1899. Greater London Council
Architects. H. Martin Lidbetter was the son of Hubert Lidbetter (1885-1966), best known for the Euston Road Friends Meeting House (1927). Hubert designed many Quaker meeting houses. Father and son ...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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