Plaque

Egyptian eye in pavement

Site: Egyptian eye in pavement (1 memorial)

NW1, Hampstead Road

This is a real puzzle. Looks like the palmette in the Euston Road, also in the borough of Camden. They are both outside very interesting and tourist-worthy buildings. Neither arrow is pointing at the building in question but the stones could have been reoriented during pavement works. So we wonder if Camden once introduced some sort of sight-seeing walk, marked by flag-stones like these? Which leads to the intriguing question - are there more? See House Sparrow for the latest news on this puzzle.

The Carreras building normally charms people but not Ornamental Passions, who point out that its site was once the Crescent Garden for the Georgian Terrace behind.

2020: Ian Visits' post on the 200th anniversary of the construction of Mornington Crescent points out that the construction in 1928 of this tobacco factory on a park met strong opposition and led to the "London Squares Preservation Act of 1931, which banned the construction of buildings other than those needed for the operation of the park on designated parks."

2023: A London Inheritance posted about the area. There we learnt that the lovely cats at the entrance "are not the original cats as following the closure of the factory in 1959, one was transferred to the new factory in Basildon whilst the other was shipped to a Carreras factory in Jamaica."

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

Nearby Memorials

Gilbert Johnstone Boat-House

Gilbert Johnstone Boat-House

E9, Wallis Road, 127

This Boat House was given to the Club by Gilbert Johnstone, the youngest of 9 siblings in memory of 3 of his 6 brothers: Francis, Alan an...

5 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Bush House

Bush House

WC2, Aldwych, Bush House

In our photo the blue plaque is immediately to the left of the left-most traffic lights. The Bush House complex consists of this central...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
St Mary Somerset  - Ewan Christian

St Mary Somerset - Ewan Christian

EC4, Lambeth Hill, St Mary's Somerset Church

The dates given on the plaque are about the time that the church ceased functioning and was demolished but we can't explain the exact dates.

2 subjects commemorated
Dyers' Hall

Dyers' Hall

EC4, Upper Thames Street, Riverbank House

Riverbank House by David Walker Architects was completed in 2011.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith

IG8, Woodford New Road, Mill Plain, Epping Forest

{On a plaque below a picture of a gipsy caravan:} Gipsy Rodney Smith, who preached the gospel of christ to thousands on five continents f...

1 subject commemorated