Erection date: 2011
Festival of Britain 1951, 3rd May - 3rd November, site of the Festival Pleasure Gardens 2011.
Wandsworth Council
SW11, Battersea Park, Fountain Lake
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - SW11
'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after ...
The gardens were in the northern part of Battersea Park, which had been trans...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - SW11
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and ...
W H Hudson, writer & naturalist, 1841 - 1922. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his birth, 1991. Mario Campora Ambassador ...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
Tommy Handley, 1892 - 1949, radio comedian, lived here. Greater London Council
According to Enfield Borough this plaque, together with the remaining plaque, was "at Enfield Town Railway Station in lobby, on east wall...
Bonus fact: The Guardian reported that the Austrian author Stefan Zweig lived in this street c.1934-9 but in 2012 English Heritage reject...
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