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.
This memorial is in the north-west corner of the square.
We were expecting the phrase "May they have peace who dwell therein" to be a quote from the Bible but we can't find it.
Oops! The plaque has 'Issac' rather than the more common 'Isaac' and we can't find any support for this odd spelling. Hope no one lost th...
To honour the memory of David Ricardo, 1772 - 1823 UCL Department of Economics, founded 1828. Unveiled during the Econometric Society W...
This huge plaque is on the rear of the National Gallery, Sainsbury wing.
Sir Henry Irving, 1838 - 1905, actor, lived here, 1872 - 1899. Greater London Council
Born as Chaim Jacob Lipchitz Druskieniki, Lithuania. Died on the island of Capri and was buried on Har Hamenuhot, Jerusalem. External website provides a good chronology and pictures of some works .
Born Daisyfield, West Hill, Wandsworth. Film director, best known for The Third Man (1949), The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) and Oliver! (1968). Knighted in 1953. Illegitimate son of the actor-prod...
All four sides sport a low relief portrait of Queen Victoria in wreathed roundels half-way up.
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