Erection date: 16/9/2020
Christine Granville, born Krystyna Skarbek, 1908 - 1952, SOE agent, lived here 1949 - 1952.
English Heritage
W8, Lexham Gardens, 1
Post-WW2 this house in the centre of London’s post-war Polish community was the cheap Shelbourne Hotel, run by the Polish Relief Society.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Christine Granville
Spies, basically (but see below), working for the UK in WW2. Formed by Church...
Wartime special agent. Britain’s first and longest-serving female WW2 secret ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Christine Granville
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Plaque unveiled by Don Wales, grandson of Sir Malcolm and nephew of Donald.
The plaque is huge and horizontal and very difficult to photograph in its entirety so we captured just the engraving of the church in its...
Elsie Naisbett MBE, 22nd September 1926 - 3rd December 2009. This memorial plaque is to commemorate Elsie Naisbett's outstanding services...
The cloister garden is accessed through the gates in the building on St John Square. Free to visit and open most days. The garden was fir...
She died from multiple injuries and the lorry driver claimed he was unaware he had even hit her. So the case was dropped and he suffered ...
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