EC2, King Street, 28
These roundels, below the second floor windows, are numbered from the left. Under other windows are: "T. C. C.", "1868", "H.H.".
Number 4 with his moustache looks most distinctive but are these portraits, or are they just decorative, generic heads?
The unabbreviated text would read in Latin: "Victoria dei gratia Britanniarum Regina", which translates as: "Victoria, by the Grace of Go...
In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
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 foundation stone is immediately to the right of the central entrance. Above the entrance: "Westminster Public Library, The united pa...
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