Erection date: 27/9/2005
City of Westminster
Headquarters of the Norwegian Government-in-exile located here, 1940-1945.
Royal Norwegian Embassy
The official Norway site provides useful background information for this plaque. See also the Norwegian gratitude stone.
SW7, Princes Gate, Kingston House North
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Norwegian Government-in-exile
The Norwegian government and parliament refused to accept a German ultimatum ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Norwegian Government-in-exile
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Appointed as Norwegian Ambassador to the Court of St James's (i.e. the UK) in...
Lord Hugh Jenkins, 1908 - 2004, Putney MP, 1964- 1979, Minister for the Arts, lived at Kenilworth Court. The Putney Society
Legendary Shepherd's Bush rock band, The Who, performed here at the site of the Goldhawk Social Club at the start of their career. The He...
St James's Residences stand in an area first known as Knaves Acre. The original 17th century houses and courts survived until demolition...
We have assumed that the lost plaque read the same as the one at The Oval.
English Heritage Mervyn Peake, 1911-1968, author and artist lived here, 1960-1968.
Designer of the first Hammersmith Bridge, William Tierney Clark, 1783-1852, lived on this waterworks site, c.1839.
Captain James Ezekiel Williams was the second of the five children of James Williams (b. circa 1840) and Clara Ann Williams, née Bell (b. circa 1840). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of...
There were 4 mediaeval manorial boundary crosses in Croydon: Hand Cross, Hern or Hurn Cross, Stay or Stake Cross, and one of unknown name. They marking out one hundred acres of the old town of Croy...
