Erection date: 1/2/1985
Here fell WPC Yvonne Fletcher, 17th April 1984.
{Below is the badge of the Metropolitan Police.}
The first memorial created by the Police Memorial Trust, it was unveiled by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
SW1, St James Square
Credit for this entry to: Bob Baker
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
WPC Yvonne Fletcher memorial
Semley, Wiltshire was the home of Yvonne Fletcher until she became a Police C...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
WPC Yvonne Fletcher memorial
A charitable organisation created following a letter to The Times from Michae...
Prime Minister: 1979 - 1990. Born Grantham. MP for Finchley: 1959 - 1992. A M...
The listing text gives “Granite stepped pedestal surmounted by granite crucifix with bronze figures of the dead Christ flanked by Keary a...
Names are inscribed on the vertical faces of the 4 steps leading up to the plinth. Many of these are too weather-beaten to read so we hav...
Unveiled by the Queen in the presence of many members of the Kennedy family and the PM Harold Macmillan. Videos of the unveiling at Briti...
British History Online refers to this feature as “An eagle on a double Tuscan column, of unknown origin, stands in front of a garden…”. S...
Very sad - a stump of a memorial that is also weathered into illegibility.
2021: This plaque has been replaced with a similar plaque, re-branded to promote 'London Bridge City' rather than 'Pool of London'.
English Heritage Sydney Monckton Copeman, 1862-1947, immunologist and developer of smallpox vaccine, lived here.
We photographed the plaque some years ago, but did not get a picture of the building on which it was located. We have checked around the ...
Liner, built in Hamburg with the name 'Monte Rosa' as a luxury cruise ship. Many of the passengers in the early days were privileged members of the Nazi Party. She saw active service in WW2 and was...
Catholic lay priest and martyr. Son of John Felton, he was born in about 1567 at Bermondsey Abbey. He was sent to the English College, Rheims, and entered the order of Minims. Returning to England,...
