Architect, teacher and writer. Born Chelsea. Awarded O.B.E. 2002. Died Pembury, Kent
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Architect, teacher and writer. Born Chelsea. Awarded O.B.E. 2002. Died Pembury, Kent
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
A high level link between the Royal Opera House and the Royal Ballet School. Designed by Flint & Neill and Buro Happold with Wilkinson Eyre.
Alistair David Berkley was born on 11 April 1959, the eldest of the three children of John Barrie Berkley (1927-2018) and Jean C. Berkley née Blair (b.1930). His birth was registered in the 2nd qua...
In the 1860s, as the Superintending Architect to the Metropolitan Board of Works he designed Finsbury Park with the MBW's landscape designer Alexander McKenzie. Parks and Gardens has "..there are ...
The last of 12 Eleanor Crosses erected to celebrate Eleanor's last journey. Queen Eleanor of Castile died near Lincoln, with her husband, King Edward I, at her bedside, and was to be buried in Wes...
A society founded with the aim of improving the quality of life in Clapham and to strengthen its identity and sense of community. Initiated a Green Plaque Scheme in 2011 to commemorate interesting...
The first qualified female supersonic pilot and the first to fly Concorde. Born at the house with the plaque, she was raised in Bognor Regis and left school aged 15 to become a hairdresser but the...
Suffragist and trades unionist. Born Mary Reid Macarthur in Glasgow. She was the general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and was involved in the formation of the National Federation of ...
Thanks to (C) Peter Gregson for the picture.
An independent consumer organisation based in St Albans, and known as CAMRA. Founded in Kruger's bar in Dunquin, Kerry, Ireland, by a group who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer a...
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