Erection date: 22/4/1903
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Mission founded 1887
Buildings erected 1903
This column was fixed by The Rt Hon Lord Strathcona-and-Mount Royal GCMG, April 22nd 1903.
EC1, City Road
The building is also known as the Imperial Hall. Up the top, in an Art Nouveau swirl the building is dated 1903. The plaques are, left to right: Reed, McArthur, Strathcona, Marshall.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Leysian Mission - Strathcona
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge i...
Born Scotland. Emigrated to Canada in 1838 to work with the Hudson's Bay Co...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Leysian Mission - Strathcona
Mission founded 1887 Buildings erected 1903 This column was fixed by Sir Hor...
{Either side of a cartouche/shield:} Mission founded 1887 Buildings erected 1...
{Either side of a cartouche/shield:} Mission founded 1887 Buildings erected 1...
The plaque was unveiled by actor and president of the Heritage Foundation, Vicki Michelle.
The modern information board at the entrance to the gardens points out that the three Prime Ministers lived here at different times. It w...
The building is dated 1893 and presumably was named after Blackfriars Priory even though that was on the other side of the river.
George Bernard Shaw lived in this house from 1887 to 1898. "From the coffers of his genius he enriched the world".
Building pulled down and the parish united for ecclesiastical purposes with the parish of St. Mary-le-Bow.
Seaman. Baptised at Harwich, Essex, on 29 December 1561. He was the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of the three ships which carried settlers to found the Jamestown Settlement in 1607. I...
Apart from the actual names the two plaques are the same. Our photo shows the one on the left.
Mining magnate and politician in southern Africa. Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1890-96. As a businessman he founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which ...
This stone is a substitute for the more elaborate memorial that was located on the other side of the road, and subsequently removed. It c...
