Orders taken here for the despatch of newspapers, books and magazines to all parts of the world.
OK, this is not actually a memorial but it's too good to exclude on the basis of house rules.
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 - war-damaged plaque
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna opened a small newsvendors in 1792 in Li...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Smiths - war-damaged plaque
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 - war-damaged plaque
This building was the Head Office of W.H. Smith & Son from 1920 to 1976. ...
This plaque was placed on the Hospital's centenary. WH Smiths had given the H...
WIIIR Rotten Row - the king's old road, completed 1690. This ride originally formed part of King William III's carriage drive from Whiteh...
The "D.R. London S.E.5" is puzzling. The Oval is in the SE11 post code, not SE5. Possibly "D. R." is an organisation, based in SE5, that ...
Burt Kwouk OBE, 1930 - 2016, Chinese actor, lived here 1990 - 2016. The Heritage Foundation
Unveiled by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley. Behind this plaque is an interesting detective story, related in Dr Ruth Richardson's book: 'Dicke...
This complex of buildings was created to house the Guildhall School of Music, who had outgrown their premises at Aldermanbury. Designed b...
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
The original UCL, built 1825 - 1832, comprised this quad and its buildings, by the architect William Wilkins (1778 -1839).
July 2022: We thank Philip Broke for alerting us to the presence of the blue plaque, which has replaced the black one.
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
