Oranjehaven
This building served as a club endowed in 1942 by Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands for Dutchmen having escaped from their occupied country to join the Allied Forces.
W2, Hyde Park Place, 23
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Oranjehaven
A club for Dutchmen who had escaped their occupied country to join the Allied...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Oranjehaven
Queen (in her own right) of the Netherlands 1890 - 1948, the longest reign of...
Plaque-wise this is a busy little corner. Just to the south of this plaque there are three other mildly interesting, non-memorial, plaque...
Unveiled by Sir Williams’ son, Jake Empson. At no 71 Empson lived in the the first floor flat.
Compare the text on this plaque with that on the filmmaker's plaque in Brussels.
Wikipedia and others describe the building as previously a 17th century chapel, which it clearly isn't. This 1863 map shows the streets ...
Sargent travelled a lot between USA, England and Europe but settled in London in 1886 initially at (what is now) 33 Tite Street, extendin...
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