Building From 1893 To 1960

Imperial Institute

Established in 1887 to promote research that would benefit the British Empire. From 1893 it was housed in a building in Exhibition Road, designed by T. E. Collcutt. This was demolished in the 1950s/60s to make space for Imperial College. The Imperial Institute was renamed the Commonwealth Institute and moved into a building in Holland Park. The Library Time Machine has some marvellous pictures of the interior of both Institutes: the Imperial and the Commonwealth.

The 1959 film 'The Rough and the Smooth'/'Portrait of a Sinner' has a scene set at the entrance to this building, at about 52 mins. You see two of the lions and a highly ornate entrance area.

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Imperial Institute

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Imperial Institute lions

Of the four lions that used to flank the entrance to the Imperial Institute t...

Queen's Tower - IC

The stone was laid only 14 days into her 51st year so we're taking this as a ...

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Marjorie Hewson

Nursery nurse. She worked for over forty years at Christ Church School, in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, (the area in which she grew up and lived herself). A popular character, remembered by many for h...

Person, Children, Education

1 memorial

St John's House

From the National Archives : "St John House was founded in 1848 as a 'Training Institution for Nurses for Hospitals, Families and the Poor'. It was a religious community run by a Master, who was a ...

Group, Education, Medicine, Religion

1 memorial

Elizabeth Jesser Reid

Founder of Bedford College, anti-slavery activist and philanthropist. Her Wikipedia page is very informative. Elizabeth Jesser Sturch was born on 15 December 1789 in the St Clement Danes district...

Person, Education, Gender Issues, Philanthropy, Race Issues

1 memorial

Putney School of Art

Founded by William Lancaster, Baron Pollock and Sir Arthur Jelf. For the first 11 years this was based in rooms over the parish offices in Putney High Street. Lancaster then funded the freehold s...

Group, Art, Education

1 memorial

Homerton College

Originally created to educate Calvinist ministers, as non-conformists were banned from attending Oxbridge colleges. Its first meetings were held in a public house at the Royal Exchange until 1768 w...

Place, Education

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Imperial Hotel, Russell Square

Designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll. The picture was taken in 1913 after the completion of the extension, which is the section on the left, to the north (2017: we now think the 'extension' was into t...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

22 memorials

Bow Road Railway Station

The authoritative-looking picture source website gives the date of opening as 4 April 1892 (contradicting the plaque) and the closing date as 1949 for passengers and 1962 finally.

Building, Property, Transport

1 memorial

Lieutenant D. Holman

Person

War dead, WW1

1 memorial

Gunner Robert Henry Oxtoby, DCM

Robert Henry Oxtoby was born on 20 September 1896 in Bow, London. He was the second of the three children of William Oxtoby (1862-1918) and Eva Nellie Oxtoby née Todd (1868-1947) and his birth was ...

Person

War dead, WW1

1 memorial

Led by Donkeys

From their Facebook page: "Art, activism and accountability. All our work is funded by the public, no big donors."

Group, Art, Politics & Administration

1 memorial