Relief

Animals War Memorial Dispensary - bronze frieze

Erection date: 10/11/1932

Inscription

{at the bottom right:}
Frederick Brook Hitch Sc 1932

This bronze frieze shows a winged Victory holding wreaths and flanked by camels, mules, bullocks, horses, elephants, dogs and pigeons, all animals used in war. Brook Hitch won a competition sponsored by the R.S.P.C.A. to create this work.

Site: Animals War Memorial Dispensary (2 memorials)

NW6, Cambridge Avenue, 10

This 19th century building was converted by the architect John Oliver Brook Hitch MC, into an animal dispensary. It was opened on 10 November 1932 by Frances Evelyn ‘Daisy’ Greville, Countess of Warwick, a well-known animal lover. In its first year it treated 6,000 animals and continues to treat sick animals today. The Animal World of December 1932 carries a long article about this dispensary with pictures.

Incidentally, there is a very strange building right next door, to the right in our photo. Strange outside and extraordinary inside.

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

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Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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F. Brook Hitch

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