On this site stood Emanuel Hospital, founded 1594 by Lady Dacre, re-established 1883, as Emanuel School.
SW1, Buckingham Gate, 51
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Emanuel Hospital
Founded as part of the legacy of Anne, Lady Dacre. Originally it was an almsh...
Originally founded as a school for poor children as part of the legacy of Lad...
Gentlewoman and benefactress. Born Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Sackville, t...
'Barrett Barrett' was indeed her maiden name (ensuring one's inheritance sometimes required abnormal naming commitments). The text and se...
The Cynthia Jarrett memorial is beneath the ground floor windows on the far right of the photograph. The Bernie Grant plaque is to the ...
The watch-house is the low building to the right of the one with the scholar statues. the blue plaque you can just see to the left is fo...
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, so they brought it to him at his home here.
The building is also known as the Imperial Hall. Up the top, in an Art Nouveau swirl the building is dated 1903. The plaques are, left t...
Church warden of Holy Trinity, Sloane Square in 1889.
Wikipedia says "Every May, supporters of the Szmul Zygielbojm Memorial Committee gather at the memorial."
Around the top are some delightful reliefs in iron of the badges of early fire insurance companies: Sun, Phoenix, London and Royal Exchan...
Lived at 62 Highbury Park and died on either 14 or 16th (sources differ). A Highbury Community Association newsletter of 2011 reports on a contemporary search for funds to repair the clock. Seems ...
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