In memory of the residents of University College Hall who gave their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1918.
{This is followed by a list of 26 names in alphabetical sequence. See the Subjects Commemorated for the names}
WC1, Foster Court, Malet Place
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
University College Hall WW1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Edward Sylvester Blake was born on 31 December 1896 in Wilnecote, Warwickshir...
Lieutenant Cyril Huleatt Brew was born in 1894 in Chew Magna, Somerset, the s...
John Chapman was born circa 1887 in Middleton St George, Durham, the second o...
Private Orazio Abbott Corte was born as Orazio Corte on 27 December 1891 in T...
LCC Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 - 1727, lived here.{On the lower plaque:} Tablet fixed 1908. Premises rebuilt & tablet refixed 1915.
The "plaque" is actually a very dull modern notice inside the arcade so for our close-up picture we've focussed on the classical entrance...
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...
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716 - 1783, landscape architect lived here, 1764 - 1783. English Heritage
There are two alcoves, placed some distance apart so we have only photoed one. Both of them have both memorials.
The quoted text comes at the end of Chapter 13 of 'Little Dorrit' by Charles Dickens, the 'him' being Arthur Clennam. The Victorian Socie...
Elder brother to Laurance Grant and Norman Cairns. Left a lot of money in his will to the National Trust to commemorate his brothers. The money was used to buy Sutton House and eight areas of count...
Established to meet the educational, cultural and social needs of a community working within the burgeoning print industry of the Victorian era. The Londonphile has visited and photographed the in...
Group, Journalism / Publishing, Museums / Libraries, Theatre
Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1927. However he did not realise the significance and it was not until 1940 that Florey and Chain demonstrat...
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