W2, Connaught Place, 16
We photographed this at first just because it is such a lovely window. Then we noticed that the flowers are poppies, well known to commemorate the dead in the two world wars. Surely a war memorial. We emailed the company in this building at the time (2013) asking for more information but got not reply.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Poppy window
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Unusually this memorial was erected before the end of the war. There may be more but the only other one we know of is at St Botolphs.
These piers and ironwork are in front of the Sainsbury's (opened 2014) to the right of the Library.
Immediately after her death this site was visited by a protest ride of over 1,000 cyclists demonstrating for safer roads. A small shrin...
This is an analemmatic sundial. A gnomon that moves according to the date makes the time-telling more accurate. In this case the gnomon...
A nearby information board gives a good history of the Embankment: The first person to suggest a river embankment was Sir Christopher Wr...
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