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...
Racing Manager to Queen Elizabeth from 1969 until his death. A very close friend of the Queen, as described in the Telegraph, or a very, very, close friend of the Queen as described at Yahoo Answe...
232 dogs died in 1902 as a result of medical experiments. Wikipedia gives: "In 1875 there were around 300 experiments on animals in the UK, a figure that had risen to 19,084 in 1903 when the brown...
Now known as the World Wide Fund for Nature. It is an international non-governmental organisation, working in wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human intervention on the environment. J...
Group, Animals, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
Architect. He has won two London Festival of Architecture competitions in consecutive years: with the bench 'Here Lies Geoffrey Barkington' in 2018 and the parklet ‘Pavement Art Gallery’ in 2019. O...
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