SW1, Great Smith Street
The foundation stone is immediately to the right of the central entrance.
Above the entrance: "Westminster Public Library, The united parishes of St Margaret and St John the Evangelist, AD 1893". In 1985 this building was threatened with demolition and was only saved by a campaign which brought about the Thorney Island Society.
The Listing identifies the heads for us, and we've numbered them left to right.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Old Westminster Library - head 2- Shakespeare
Born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birth date is usually given as the ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Old Westminster Library - head 2- Shakespeare
Westminster Public Library The united parishes of St Margaret and St John the...
We first thought Francis Bacon but he normally has more hair, and, so far, al...
The hair seems a bit too curly but the sad eyes are right.
We can find nothing to connect Reynolds with Harrow.
Building erected in 1883 by George Attenborough for his jewellery and pawn-broking business, Attenborough and Sons. Architects: Archer an...
{The front of the stone plinth is inscribed:} Hunter {On a plaque attached to the side of the plinth:} This bust of John Hunter (1728 ...
These 10 portrait mosaics are the result of a project by Morley College to celebrate the achievements of significant women who have lived...
In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...
Unlike the majority of war memorials this was erected while the war continued. Hell-fire corner knows of a printed Order of Service in th...
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middlesex. This division was a liberty, i.e. it was an autonomous area under the jurisdiction of the Constable of the Tower of...
2 July 1993 at the Hotel Madimak in Sivas, Turkey, people had gathered for the Pir Sultan Abdal {poet executed c. 1560} festival. A mob set fire to the hotel killing 35 people, mostly Alevi (a loca...
Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice of England, lived in this house 1816 - 1834, and his son, Rt. Hon. George Denman, a judge of the High Cou...
