W2, Connaught Place, 16
We photographed this at first just because it is such a lovely window. Then we noticed that the flowers are poppies, well known to commemorate the dead in the two world wars. Surely a war memorial. We emailed the company in this building at the time (2013) asking for more information but got not reply.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Poppy window
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Along the front edge of the bench 10 sets of deviders are carved and along the top of the back 6 of the Masons' shield.
The full title 'Following the Leader (Memorial to the Children Killed in the Blitz)’ makes it clear that this relief is indeed a memorial...
Until 2007 the north-east corner of this junction was occupied by the 1968 Swiss Centre. The facade of the building was adorned with an a...
Camden's local list gives some of the history of this site. It dates the corner building as 1871 - 1894 and "The original entrance has be...
This monument is a tall, triangular, pyramidal, glass case containing a steel rule, 2 metres long, marked off in millimetres. That's a p...
