Major road in London, running from Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square. The name is derived from the Whitehall Palace which stood here and was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1698. The Banqueting House is all that remains of the Palace. Most of the government department buildings are located here.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Whitehall
WIIIR Rotten Row - the king's old road, completed 1690. This ride originally ...
The man on the 1905 plaque is probably not F. Milton Harvey who would have been only 29. Perhaps his father?
Architects who designed the 1935 Brady Settlement building. We wonder if this firm is connected to the Mrs N. S. Joseph who was one of the 1896 founders of the Brady Settlement.
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St Saviour's Southwark has some good reports describing this burial ground at various times: 1822 - a report of a body-snatching incident; 1839 - a report of its over-filled "repulsive" condition; ...
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