Founded to focus attention on the historic environment of the borough and to record, preserve and enhance its historic buildings.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group
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Brilliant Sign Company
On this site stood the Paragon Works of the Brilliant Sign Company. Formed in...
Citroën House - Ford
Citroën House, an early example of a concrete-framed building, was built in 1...
Farm Lane - Number 101
101 Farm Lane This site was first developed in the 1890s as a horse bus compa...
Farm Lane - Number 72
72 Farm Lane This building was constructed over market gardens in 1889 as two...
Other Subjects
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
Nicholas Revett
Architect. Born in Framlingham, Suffolk. He went to Rome in 1742 to study under Marco Benefiale. In 1750 he travelled to Athens with James Stuart to record the antiquities. He incorporated some of ...
Person, Architecture, Art, Greece, Italy
1 memorial
Joseph Aloysius Hansom
Architect, founder/editor of The Builder and inventor of the Hansom cab. Born York as Josephus Aloysius Handsom(e) into a Roman Catholic family. Made a habit of snatching failure from the jaws o...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson
Architect (and writer of ghost stories). Born Heath Street, Hampstead. Much of his work is of educational buildings, quite a few in Oxford. Died at home at 49 Evelyn Garden.
1 memorial
Giles Scott, Son and Partner
Arcitectural firm founded by Giles Gilbert Scott. Their work includes the reconstuction of Guildhall, and later the Guildhall Art Gallery.
1 memorial
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Robert Boothby
Politician and broadcaster. Born Robert John Graham Boothby at 5 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh. Entered parliament in 1924 and held a couple of minor ministerial posts. He went on to become a well known...
1 memorial
6 Burlington Gardens - Bacon
W1, Burlington Gardens, 6
There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Richard Dawson
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Anthony Richard Dawson was born on 3 August 1969. He had three siblings, Roger, Louise and Jane and he liv...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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