Erection date: 25/6/1998
This building was opened by Her Majesty the Queen, 25 June 1998.
This inscription is opposite the entrance, below the Shakespeare statue.
NW1, Euston Road, The British Library
All the sculptures are inside the main building.
See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in the BL.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Opening of the British Library
16 years between the laying of the foundation stone in 1982 and the opening i...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Opening of the British Library
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...
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Opening of the British Library
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.
The plaque dates the campaign from 1941, but other sources give it as 1942. The quotation is credited to John Maxwell Edmonds.
This complex of buildings was created to house the Guildhall School of Music, who had outgrown their premises at Aldermanbury. Designed b...
The facade of this building tells the history of the school. Each of the 4 gable ends carries a plaque with a dated event, reading from l...
Plaque unveiled by her daughter, Tessa, Viscountess Montgomery of Alamein.
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