Charles Rolls
W1, Conduit Street, 14 - 15
English Heritage Charles Rolls, 1877 - 1910, pioneer of motoring and aviation, worked here, 1905 - 1910.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee - W1
W1, Foubert's Place, 31, Foubert Mansions
Not the most flattering portrait of the old dear.
2 subjects commemorated
Captain J. O. Cooper
W2, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lido, Lansbury's Lido
The poem is part of ‘Riddles’, R.F.C. by John Drinkwater, 1918.
War dead | WW1
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
George Lansbury - Serpentine
W2, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lido, Lansbury's Lido
The Lido Pavilion was built in 1930 to provide mixed bathing and sunbathing facilities. As the First Commissioner of Works, in the Depres...
1 subject commemorated
Palmette in pavement
WC1, Euston Road, St Pancras New Church
The palmette is a common decorative motif used in Greek, and in this instance Greek revival, architecture. It can also be seen along the ...
Egyptian eye in pavement
NW1, Hampstead Road
This is a real puzzle. Looks like the palmette in the Euston Road, also in the borough of Camden. They are both outside very interesting ...
Mayfair's oldest house
W1, Stanhope Row, Park Lane Mews Hotel
Unveiled as part of Westminster's 50th anniversary commemorations marking the end of WW2. The plant-screened section of the text was pro...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Edward Murrow
W1, Hallam Street, 84 - 94, Weymouth House
Bonus fact: The Guardian reported that the Austrian author Stefan Zweig lived in this street c.1934-9 but in 2012 English Heritage reject...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Norman Hartnell
W1, Bruton Street, 26
English Heritage Sir Norman Hartnell, 1901 - 1979, court dressmaker, lived and worked here, 1935 - 1979.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Miss Rose
SW3, Old Church Street, 133
Miss Rose 1966 Quae in hac æde regnabat et nunc et æternum regnat in cordibus nostrum. {Latin: She ruled in this house and rules now an...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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