Erection date: 1951
Collingham Garden
The use of this ground for the welfare of children for all time has been bequeathed under the will of John Cyril Lees Collingham who died on May 28th 1936.
Erected by the Governors of the Foundling Hospital 1951.
WC1, Brunswick Square, Coram Family
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Collingham Garden
John Cyril Lees Collingham was born in 1865, the second of the six children o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Collingham Garden
England's first home for abandoned children. Established in 1739 by Captain T...
Chelsea china was manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street, 1745-1784. Tobias Smollett, novelist, also lived in part o...
Oskar Kokoschka, 1886 - 1980, painter lived here. English Heritage
We have numbered the foundation stones from left to right.
This building, now a hotel, was the wartime headquarters of the Women's Voluntary Services.
You can just see the left edge of this plaque in our photo, on the pillar at the left.
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