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...
Our photo was taken in 2014 when 'Boris' was of course the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
In the photo the plaque is above the snowman's head. One doesn't get to say that very often.
It is thought that the rather exotic trees, Australian bottlebrush, in this road are a nod to the Antipodean connection.
Arthur Stanley Wint 1920 - 1992, RAF pilot,doctor & diplomat, gold medal olympian, lived at this address 1949 - 1960. Chinara Enterpr...
John Constable, 1776 - 1837, artist, lived here in the summers of 1821 - 1822. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
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