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Archbishop Sumner's Memorial Schools

SE11

The plaque is on the left side of the building, beside the white panelling on the low modern extension. The school's website gives no history but ...

Hugh Gaitskell House

N16

Virginia & Leonard Woolf - Tavistock Square

WC1

Blogging Woolf quote Woolf's diary: "Wednesday 9 January [1924] At this very moment, or fifteen minutes ago to be precise, I bought the ten years l...

St John's House rebuilt

WC1

We find this building puzzling since in some ways it looks more modern than those around but it retains many characteristics that suggest early-mid...

Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church

N5

The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our photo, just to...

Red Lion - Kilburn

W9

The Kilburn Wells were in this area, possibly very close to this pub.

Holmes & Watson - Criterion

W1

The Criterion Restaurant is on the ground floor with the entrance at the left of our photo. The meeting at the Criterion took place on New Year's ...

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

WC1

This listed building was designed by Vernor Rees in 1926, one of the first steel-framed buildings ever erected. The balconies are decorated with gi...

Rugby Estate

WC1

The Walkers of Southgate

N14

The banker James Colebrooke bought the Arnold's Estate, demolished the manor house and built this house which was finished by his son after his dea...