This building was the Head Office of W.H. Smith & Son from 1920 to 1976. The above sign was damaged by shrapnel from a German bomb during an air raid on the night of 10th October 1940.
WC2, Portugal Street
There are 3 plaques, all on the north face of this building, to the right of the entrance shown in the photograph.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna opened a small newsvendors in 1792 in Li...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
This plaque was placed on the Hospital's centenary. WH Smiths had given the H...
OK, this is not actually a memorial but it's too good to exclude on the basis...
The small Seaward plaque is on the green door. The Northern Line plaque is immediately inside the entrance to the tube, on the left.
This 'plaque' was spotted in 2018 by a friend who lives nearby, to whom we are also grateful for the photos.
London County Council Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1847 - 1929, Prime Minister and first Chairman of the London Coun...
Exactly a year after he died, Forsyth's ashes were laid to rest under the stage at the London Palladium in a private ceremony, and a blue...
There are two stone plaques either side of the entrance, low on the wall, and two, rather classier, plaques in the entrance lobby. Readi...
The erection of the statue was organised by the Irving Memorial Committee on land donated by the City of Westminster. The Irving Society...
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
