Erection date: 27/9/2005
City of Westminster
Headquarters of the Norwegian Government-in-exile located here, 1940-1945.
Royal Norwegian Embassy
The official Norway site provides useful background information for this plaque. See also the Norwegian gratitude stone.
SW7, Princes Gate, Kingston House North
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Norwegian Government-in-exile
The Norwegian government and parliament refused to accept a German ultimatum ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Norwegian Government-in-exile
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Appointed as Norwegian Ambassador to the Court of St James's (i.e. the UK) in...
Obviously a ‘Do-It-Yourself’ job. A local resident described it as looking like it was made on the bottom of an oil drum.
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
The plaque is to the left of the gate's left hand pier.
Martha Gellhorn, 1908 - 1998, war correspondent and writer, lived and worked in a flat here. English Heritage
The words come from a very dull modern plaque attached to the railings. London Uncovered gives: "A four-faced drum clock by Thwaites &am...
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