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...
The halo and the baby would suggest the woman represented is the Virgin Mary but she may also represent the less revered mothers who were...
The Prince Regent (later King George IV) had died more than twenty years before the Great Exhibition. They mean the 'Prince Consort', i.e...
This pair of semi-detached houses was built in 1881 and immediately put to use as Westfield College. Number 6, to the left with the West...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936, poet, novelist and critic, lived here. London County Council
2017: Our colleague, Alan Patient, informed us that this plaque has gone.
Died, aged 31, when a construction crane crashed, along with Peter Clark and Michal Whittard. The BBC reported on the inquest. The crane was on the construction site for the HSBC skyscraper in Can...
The plaque is by the Belgrave Place entrance to the building.
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