Located at 47 Portland Place.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Embassy of the Republic of Poland
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Polish Navy WW2 Headquarters
{Beneath the insignia of the Polish Navy:} This building housed the headquart...
Sir Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS (1908 - 2005) one of Poland's finest sons,...
Stanisław Sosabowski
{Beneath the Polish coat of arms and beside the emblem of the Polish undergro...
Other Subjects
Frank Twydale Dear
Architect of John Street and/or Bedford Row, our source, The Vauxhall Society, is unclear. So many records (as at April 2022) can be found on the internet claiming that the Stockwell War Memorial ...
1 memorial
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Founded by William Morris, Philip Webb and others associated with the Pre-Raphaelites to counteract the highly destructive 'restoration' of medieval buildings being practised by many Victorian arch...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Survey of London
Founded by C. R. Ashbee in 1894, the first volume being published in 1900. With over 28 volumes published so far this is a research work-in-progress aiming to produce a comprehensive architectural ...
1 memorial
Sir Ebenezer Howard
Founder of the garden city movement. Born 62 Fore Street. Travelled to America in 1871 where he tried farming and was in Chicago at the time that it was being rebuilt after a great fire. The new su...
1 memorial
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Octavia Hill
Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, her father's eighth daughter (yes, really). She believed that social housing should be small houses (rather...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Property, Social Welfare
9 memorials
Newman Hall
Non-conformist minister and hymn writer. Born Maidstone, Kent as Christopher Newman Hall. 1854 became minister of Surrey Chapel. Promoted the abolition of slavery and in 1867 visited North America,...
2 memorials
Alfred Wilson
The founding vicar of St Michael & All Angels Church in Bedford Park in 1887. On his wife's page we list their 3 sons, lost serving their country. Whilst researching their son, Harold, our col...
1 memorial
People's Building Society
It was operating in the 1860s with branches in Deptford, Greenwich and Lewisham. In 1968 it made an application to be merged with the Greenwich Building Society. Caroline's Miscellany gives further...
1 memorial
Reg Rigden
Cornet player. He was part of George Webb's Dixielanders jazz band. In later years he was curator of the Plumstead Museum.
1 memorial
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