Oranjehaven
This building served as a club endowed in 1942 by Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands for Dutchmen having escaped from their occupied country to join the Allied Forces.
W2, Hyde Park Place, 23
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Oranjehaven
A club for Dutchmen who had escaped their occupied country to join the Allied...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Oranjehaven
Queen (in her own right) of the Netherlands 1890 - 1948, the longest reign of...
Both Mazzini and Carlyle are almost always depicted with a beard but finally we found Carlyle displaying his chin and that image looks to...
Barry Evans, 1943 - 1997, actor, lived here. The Heritage Foundation
The Prince Regent (later King George IV) had died more than twenty years before the Great Exhibition. They mean the 'Prince Consort', i.e...
What's the expression? Oh, yes: "Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in these plaques are the author's own and do not necessarily repres...
The plaque was first erected in 1997 on the previous Young Vic building. London SE1 carries a good report of the second unveiling and rep...
The list of names contains two pairs of duplicates: C. Chipperfield and H. Smith; neither is a transcription error on our part. These cou...
We believe a 2-horse carriage pole is the long horizontal bar between the pair of horses that connects them to the body of the carriage.
Singer and songwriter. Born Farrokh or Faroukh Bulsara in Government Hospital, Zanzibar, Tanzania. His family moved to Britain in 1964, settling in Feltham. After graduating from college, he tried ...
French poet. Born Metz, France. Has been described as an ugly, homicidal alcoholic. He effectively eloped from his own marriage to live with Rimbaud. Following his imprisonment for attempted murder...
Unusually this memorial commemorates two quite separate groups of WW1 dead: patients of the local temporary war hospital, and the parishi...
