Wingate
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
Unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh.
Unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh.
The statue represents a soldier. To the left, in the cream marble, is a carved relief of an anchor with ropes, representing the navy and ...
This plaque is very decorative,with an ornate frame, at the top of which is a roundel showing a stag on a shield. It was perhaps not int...
This plaque is protected from the rain by a projecting granite shelf, above. The small modern green plaque below reads: "Green Apple Awa...
The monument is very weather-worn but the two panels containing the names are crisp so we think they have been recently re-carved. WW2 su...
The memorial is hand-made and all the better for it. The serif typeface is unique and ornate. Framed and boxed behind glass, the manuscr...
Modelled on the statue of Dioscuri in Rome. A gay friend of ours is fond of quoting Larry Olivier on this statue: "the best arse in Lond...
2017: Our colleague, Alan Patient, informed us that this plaque has gone.
A few years later, in 1854, Lewis Cubitt also designed the much more traditional Great Northern Hotel, a bit of which you can see on the ...