The Surveyors Club was formed in 1792 but the modern group was formed in 1868 at a meeting in London's Westminster Palace Hotel. It received a royal charter on 26 August 1881.
Its HQ has been at the same address since it was formed in 1868. That's on the corner of Parliament Square and Great George Street, behind the George Canning statue.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
We've tried a zoomed-in photograph one of the vanes but the name of the donor...
Delabole Slate has been used ss a building material for over 600 years.
This Square was laid out at the same time as Hoxton Square and in 1922 Charles Square still contained at least some houses from about 1685 - 1745. Only no. 16 remains. Shown in the picture, it w...
The manor house of Sheen had stood on the site since at least the early 12th century, and King Henry VII built Richmond Palace there in the late 15th century. It was virtually destroyed by fire at ...
Built for the third Duke of Devonshire in about 1740 and used as the London residence for his family until its demolition in 1924. The garden to the north stretched as far as Lansdowne House. The...
We love the repeated "etc."s to indicate the Duke's excessively long list of honours, etc. (now we're at it!).
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