Erection date: 28/8/2020
Noor Inayat Khan, GC, 1914 - 1944, SOE agent, codename 'Madeleine', stayed here.
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WC1, Taviton Street, 4
The Covid-19 pandemic meant the unveiling ceremony took place on Facebook.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Noor Inayat Khan - Taviton Street
Spies, basically (but see below), working for the UK in WW2. Formed by Church...
WW2 spy and member of the French resistance. A descendant of the 18th centur...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Noor Inayat Khan - Taviton Street
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Strond is an old spelling of 'strand' meaning a beach.
Dr. John Snow, 1813 - 1858, pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist lived in a house on this site.
A temporary memorial was unveiled at this site in 1920. The plaque is on the pavement beside the monument.
From Penelope J. Corfield: this was unveiled "exactly one hundred years after the date when she stood as the Labour Party candidate in No...
At the time of her birth, the address was Belle Vue House, Lindsey Row.
The roundels on the north, river-facing, frontage are occupied by, left to right: Anson, Drake, Cook, Howard, Blake, Benbow, Sandwich, Ro...
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