Poor dear, we've seen her looking better.
SE16, Spa Road, Old Bermondsey Library / Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre
The busts are on the keystones of the library first floor window arches, numbered left to right. Ornamental Passions has posted about this building and also fails to identify number 5. The building was designed in 1890-2 by John Johnson and opened by John Lubbock. The library closed in 1989.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 3 - Victoria
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 3 - Victoria
We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon i...
The weather has removed all the hair and costume details which are essential ...
This public library was erected 1890-1. Commissioners: A. Lafone, MP - Chairm...
This used to be "mystery bust" in Puzzle Corner but our colleague, Alan Patient, has done some research into the appropriately squiffy-...
Unveiled by Prince Philip in 1967. Inside the bust there is a ½ pint Guinness bottle and a note written by Belsky. The Guinness was, it i...
These two relief roundels are above the two central third floor windows but even people who examine this facade may miss the royal visage...
All four of the Leicester Square busts were removed in the 2010-12 redesign, and we don't know where they went.
{Inscribed on the plinth just below the bust:} Shakespeare {Below this there is an open marble book with a small marble scroll above. O...
We wondered what brought about this gathering of kings (four if you include the host, King Edward III), but could not track down any refe...
There is an almost identical plaque on Celia Blairman House in Folgate Street.
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) in which she described marriage as "legal prostitu...
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