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.
On this site there used to be a sister to Hotel Russell, also designed by Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolished in the 196...
English Heritage Vivien Leigh, 1913-1967, actress, lived here.
London County Council Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923, prime minister lived here.
The plaque was not there when we first visited the site. We have returned several times over the years in case a replacement has been ere...
The memorial was unveiled to great acclaim by Brian May and Mercury's mother Jer Bulsara. By about two years later it had disappeared. On...
The millennium tree (in 2008 still a sapling) is in front of the half-timbered wall. The two yews commemorating the 850th anniversary ar...
Rower. Putney Town Henley Wyfold IV's finalist [twice: 1957 & 1958].
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