The United States' first statewide historic preservation group. In 2009, it shortened its name to Preservation Virginia. Owns sites across Virginia including Historic Jamestowne, located at Jamestown, Virginia, site of the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
This voyage took place 16 years before the Mayflower. The memorial has a his...
A centre for theatre, poetry, film, happenings and arts of all kinds. Originally founded by Jim Haynes at 182 Drury Lane, it was influential in inspiring many similar centres in the UK and Europe. ...
Often referred to as 'Gooners', being a play on the team's nickname of the 'Gunners'.
Club for the American forces in the UK during WW2. Also known as the American Red Cross Club. This is where those "oversexed, overpaid and over here" GIs hung out. From British History online: The...
This 1870 map shows that the land between Stoke Newington Common and Hackney Downs, to the east of where the railway was to be built, was entirely undeveloped and occupied by three large areas, eac...
This was one of several deep shelters built under Northern Line underground stations during WW2. See The Drum for more information. The Blitz was over by the time this shelter was completed so ins...
Inside this building on the upper-ground floor there are 4 busts - 2 in the foyer area at the entrance from the pavement (at the west) an...
Second Lieutenant Hugh St. Pierre Bunbury was born on 29 October 1883 in Peshawar, India (now Pakistan), the youngest of the six sons of Colonel William Reeves Bunbury (1839-1906) and Elizabeth Bun...
On this site between 1680 and 1778 stood Jonathan’s Coffee House, the principal meeting place of the City’s Stockbrokers. The Corporation...
Sculptor. He has also designed a number of British coins. John William Mills was born on 4 March 1933 in Balham, the elder of the two children of William Samuel Mills (1902-1943) and Lily Maud Pa...
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