Commonwealth Walkway
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Unveiled shortly before 5/8/19.
WC2, Strand, Gibraltar House
The plaque is laid into the pavement. Details of the walkway here. It runs 1.6 miles past 12 "points of interest", mainly High Commissions of Commonwealth countries, with, we'd guess, a pavement plaque at each.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Commonwealth Walkway
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Commonwealth Walkway
Established in 2012 with a donation made by the Jubilee Walkway Trust. The Tr...
The smaller plaque is between the two posts on the right of the photograph.
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
Gilbert Bayes, 1872 - 1953, sculptor, lived here 1931 - 1953. English Heritage
Bearmans Department Store. On this site stood 'Bearmans of Leytonstone' department store - "The Store with the Personal Touch". Opened by...
We believe this group now encompasses Comic Heritage, Musical Heritage, Sports Heritage and Films and Television Heritage. Its aim is to pay tribute to Britain's entertainers and raise funds for go...
Group, Cinema, History, Humour, Music / songs, Sport / Games, Theatre, TV & Radio
Grimaldi lived at numerous addresses in the Clerkenwell area between 1794 and his death. This is the only one to have survived.
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
