Corporation of the City of London
Site of London House, destroyed by fire, 1766.
EC1, Aldersgate Street, 172 - 176, London House
Strangely, there are two identical blue plaques, either side of the entrance.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
London House
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
London House
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
The errors in the inscriptions (can be viewed at Victorian Web) are presumably deliberate, and mean something. But what? We can find no...
The Richmond plaque can be seen in our photo, between the lamppost and the two blackboards.
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
The wonderful Ornamental Passions has reached this building (now a hotel) and answered the questions we had about it. To quote: "The buil...
This plaque can be seen towards the left of our photo, on the brick upright.
Sir Philip Sassoon attained prominence in the art world, high society and politics in the first decades of the 20th century. He was ADC to Douglas Haig during the First World War and later Parliame...
Contralto singer. Born Lancashire. Her brief marriage failed due to physical incompatibility. She learnt the piano and in a 1937 music festival she also competed in the singing contest for a bet...
WW1 poet. Born Rugby. Joined the navy and sailed to the Med. but died on his way to Gallipoli from an infected mosquito bite, on a French hospital ship moored in the Aegean Sea. Buried in an oli...
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