Church House
Built 1938, destroyed in war 9th February 1945, rebuilt 1955 - 56.
Deo Gloria
WC1, Wakefield Street, United Reformed Church Trust
The blue plaque is on the site of number 13, now the United Reformed Church Trust’s UK headquarters. The other two plaques are inside, in the reception area on the ground floor.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Church House WC1 - building
Forgive us for the length of this entry. The history of the various buildings...
The V1 and V2 rockets were developed as a reaction to the heavy allied bombin...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Church House WC1 - building
Our colleague Andrew Behan has done some detailed research on these names and...
From English Heritage: "The plaque was unveiled on 13 June, 41 years after the bomb fell. Stolen in 1987, it was replaced with an English...
Some of the "other material damage" can be seen in the pock-marks in the stone wall behind the plaque.
John Lewis silk mercer of Oxford Street resided at Spedan Tower, Hampstead from 1888 to 1928 as did his elder son John Spedan Lewis, late...
In our photo the sunlit plaque can be seen inside the building, between the heads of the travellers passing through the ticket barriers.
One thinks of people named on plaques as "Chairman" of this, that or the other, as being upstanding citizens. Check our page on Dr Patter...
To the casual passerby these strips look like the expansion joints one sees on bridges. It was David Brown who drew our attention to what...
The excellent Greenwich Phantom tells us that the footprint of the old church is shown "by a beech hedge, some of the foundation stones m...
This was one of several deep shelters built under Northern Line underground stations during WW2. See The Drum for more information. The Blitz was over by the time this shelter was completed so ins...
Born Aberdeen. Winner of the Prix de Rome. Other work in London includes the 1963 Joy of Life group in the Hyde Park fountain, pictured by Ornamental Passions.
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