Building    From 2003 

Bridge of Aspiration

Categories: Architecture

A high level link between the Royal Opera House and the Royal Ballet School. Designed by Flint & Neill and Buro Happold with WilkinsonEyre.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Bridge of Aspiration

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Bridge of Aspiration

{Beneath the crest of the Royal Ballet School:} The Bridge of Aspiration, the...

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Frank M. Harvey

Frank M. Harvey

The man on the 1905 plaque is probably not F. Milton Harvey who would have been only 29. Perhaps his father?

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
James Brooks

James Brooks

Architect. Born at Hartford, Berkshire. He specialised in designing churches, particularly in London's East End. His father, John was a gentleman farmer in Hattford, who later moved to Wantage. Joh...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Charles Robert Ashbee

Charles Robert Ashbee

Designer, architect, conservationist, entrepreneur and social reformer, important in the Arts and Crafts movement. Born Spring Grove, Isleworth but brought up at 46 Upper Bedford Place, in a well-o...

Person, Architecture, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Sir Charles Barry

Sir Charles Barry

Born in London. Architect of the Houses of Parliament, after the 1834 fire. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Father of the architect Charles Barry Jnr, engineer Wolfe-Barry and th...

Person, Architecture

5 memorials
The Red House

The Red House

Located in Bexleyheath, it was co-designed by Philip Webb and William Morris, to serve as a family home for the latter. Morris's passions for medieval-inspired neo-gothic styles are reflected throu...

Place, Architecture

1 memorial

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Chaplin mosaics 1

Chaplin mosaics 1

SE1, Lambeth Walk, Chandler Hall

We've numbered the mosaics left to right. The text plaque is to the right of the curved wall, just out of sight. Chaplin certainly lived ...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
A. G. S. Goodey
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Peggy Ashcroft

Peggy Ashcroft

Actor. Born Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in Croydon.

Person, Cinema, Theatre, TV & Radio

1 memorial
William Thornburgh Brown, Deputy

William Thornburgh Brown, Deputy

Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
T. H. Rolfe

T. H. Rolfe

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Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial