Designed by C. J. Phipps. The picture is taken from Cockspur Street. The building was badly bombed in 1940. Compare and contrast this ornate building with New Zealand House (1963) which is there now.
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Carlton Hotel, Haymarket
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Ho Chi Minh
Wikipedia questions the veracity of this plaque, while acknowledging that Ho ...
Royal Opera Arcade
The "plaque" is actually a very dull modern notice inside the arcade so for o...
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Kindersley Workshop
From the Workshop's website: "David Kindersley {1915–1995}, lettercutter, sculptor and inventor, started his workshop near Cambridge in 1946, having been apprenticed to Eric Gill. He was joined in ...
1 memorial
City of London Coal Exchange
Designed by J. B. Bunning and opened in 1849 in Lower Thames Street, demolished in 1963. Our Picture source examines all the interesting buildings on this section of Lower Thames Street.
1 memorial
Royal Opera Arcade
Designed by John Nash, completed in 1816-18, considered to be London's oldest existing arcade having survived a fire, dereliction and the blitz. See Her Majesty's Theatre for the history of the bui...
1 memorial
Hillier Nurseries
A family owned company with a tradition in professional horticulture. The largest grower of trees (both field and container grown), in the UK and one of the largest in Europe.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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City of Ur
Ancient city of Mesopotamia (located mainly in modern-day Iraq). It dates from circa 3,800 B.C. The site is noted for its prominent ziggurat. It started to decline from around 550 BC and was no lon...
1 memorial
Queen Elizabeth I
Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Born Greenwich Palace. Succeeded her half-sister Queen Mary I. Reigned: 1553 - 1603. Never married, no children, so followed by James I. Elizabeth I...
26 memorials
Queen Elizabeth II
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on where she was brought up see Byron Statue. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on the abdication of his brot...
124 memorials
A. Greenwood
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
West Ham United Museum
E13, Green Street, Boleyn Ground
This stadium was demolished in 2016 and we can't find out what happened to the plaques so we have marked them all as lost.
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2 creators
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