Born near Liverpool, son of the Danish Consul. Became an architect in the Arts and Crafts style, specialising in churches. The splendid 1 Millbank was built for the Church Commissioners in 1903. Died at a house he had built in Cyprus, where he spent the winter months.
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William Douglas Caroe
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Harrow on the Hill war memorial
Names are inscribed on the vertical faces of the 4 steps leading up to the pl...
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Montague House
Named after the first Duke of Montagu, it was the amalgamation of two late-seventeenth century houses with the addition of Park Corner House. The residence of Caroline of Brunswick, queen consort t...
George Basevi
Architect. Born London. Cousin to Benjamin Disraeli. Designed some lovely squares in London: Belgrave Square, Alexander Square, Thurloe Square, Pelham Crescent and Place, Walton Place, and a numbe...
Sir Ebenezer Howard
Founder of the garden city movement. Born 62 Fore Street. Travelled to America in 1871 where he tried farming and was in Chicago at the time that it was being rebuilt after a great fire. The new su...
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Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd
Carpenter and Lord Mayor in 1956.
Stepney Jewish Club
E1, Beaumont Grove, Stepney Community Centre, 2-8
The photo of the plaque comes from Jewish East End. We cannot see the plaque outside the building so perhaps it is inside, or lost, or w...
Nancy's Steps - plaque 1
SE1, Montague Close
The plaques both have the facts wrong; in the novel Nancy is murdered in her house. It is in the 1960 musical Oliver! that she is murdere...
Kirkaldy Materials Testing Machine
SE1, Southwark Street, 99, Kirkaldy Testing Museum
The Historic Southwark plaque is on the street frontage beside the less ornate entrance. The other, round, plaque is inside, high on the ...
Sir Joseph Banks - British Library
NW1, Euston Road, The British Library
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.