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 garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
LCC Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, 1792 - 1878, twice Prime Minister, lived here.
Laurence Corner On this site was the famous chic Army Surplus store, which sadly closed in 2007, 54 years after it first opened its doors...
David Hopkins has kindly provided the translation for us. Dave says "I was puzzled by the word Nidianus/i, which appears after his name a...
English Heritage Sir Norman Lockyer, 1836-1920, Astronomer, Physicist, and Founder of Nature, Lived here, 1876-1920.
