Erection date: 27/9/2005
City of Westminster
Headquarters of the Norwegian Government-in-exile located here, 1940-1945.
Royal Norwegian Embassy
The official Norway site provides useful background information for this plaque. See also the Norwegian gratitude stone.
SW7, Princes Gate, Kingston House North
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Norwegian Government-in-exile
The Norwegian government and parliament refused to accept a German ultimatum ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Norwegian Government-in-exile
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Appointed as Norwegian Ambassador to the Court of St James's (i.e. the UK) in...
This plaque is in the same style as others erected by Firemen Remembered, although they are not acknowledged on the plaque itself.
July 2023: Priscila Caroline do Nascimento reported that both these plaques have gone, so we've marked them as 'lost'. We first spotted t...
In our photo you can see, at first floor level, a row of wall tie plates. This blue plaque has every appearance of being one of those, c...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
'fl' stands for 'floruit' (Latin) which means 'he or she flourished', and denotes the period during which a person was alive.
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, PC was a Labour politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor 1945-51. Married Lesley McIntyre in 1913. No sons and we think, no daughters. Entered the ...
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