GR IV
1829
The college was founded by King George IV in 1829.
WC2, Strand, King's College
This King's College's Strand Building designed by E. D. Jefferiss Mathews in the Brutalist style opened in 1972.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Kings College - Strand
Founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington (then PM). In 1836 Kings...
Regent: 1811 - 1820. Reigned: 1820 - 1830. After secretly marrying Mrs Fitzhe...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Kings College - Strand
We photographed this at first just because it is such a lovely window. Then we noticed that the flowers are poppies, well known to comme...
The old tree is presumably gradually being decomposed by beetles and the like. The new tree may be the one to the far right of our picture.
September 2013: Our colleague Jamie Davis tells us that the plaque was stolen, presumably for its scrap value.
These two memorials are on either side of the entrance to Walnut Road.
The Mayor's response to this death was "One cyclist fatality is one too many.” That was also his response to each of the other 5 cyclist...
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