This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Open Spaces Act, 1887
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St Mary Magdalene Gardens
These grounds were laid out under the Open Spaces Act at the joint expense of...
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John Evelyn
17th century diarist and garden designer. Born Wotton, Surrey. Through his 1647 marriage he came into possession of the Sayes Court estate in Deptford, on the Thames. As far as we can tell the poss...
Belsize Residents’ Association
From their website: "The Belsize Residents Association grew out of a campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s to stop the area being split in two by a motorway." The group "seek to preserve the ...
Groundwork
An environmental agency based in Birmingham. It works with communities across the United Kingdom, to help them create places in which to live and work in a greener, more sustainable way and to impr...
Friends of St George's Gardens
Their website describes the gardens thus: "An oasis of calm used every week by hundreds of people living and working in London WC1."
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Charing Cross Station - US President
WC2, Strand, Charing Cross Station
The Guardian has a detailed description of the procession from Charing Cross to Buckingham Palace. The war had been won; the Americans h...
Constance Spry
Floral artist. Born Constance Fletcher at 58 Warner Street, Derby. Educated in Ireland, she returned to England during WW1 as a welfare worker in the east end of London. Her work with flowers did n...
Lockerbie bench - 05 - Engstrom
TW9, Kew Gardens
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
Sir Thomas Brock
Sculptor. Born in Worcester. Ornamental Passions has some comments on his work generally and at Admiralty Arch in particular. Died at 4 Dorset Square.