Image source: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
In the January 2025 RIBA Journal the creator wrote: "I shared a house with friends who regularly looked after a pampered dachshund called Geoffrey. He had even appeared in Vogue, so I am told. I’m not sure whether my decision to prematurely memorialise Geoffrey’s departure was out of disdain for his bourgeois lifestyle but his plot had been reserved within the Houndsditch pet cemetery."
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Geoffrey Barkington
The memorial is a bench, and is one of ten new ones in the City of London. Th...
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. London...
Founded at Hyde Park Corner by Richard Tattersall (1724–1795) it stayed in the Tattersall family until about WW2. The business had to move from 'the Corner' due to the lease running out and the la...
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