English Heritage
Sir Henry Cole, 1808 - 1882, campaigner and educator, first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, lived here.
SW7, Thurloe Square, 33, Embassy of Republic of Kazakhstan
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Cole - SW7
The South Kensington Museum opened on this site in 1857. It expanded and was ...
Born Bath. Secretary of the Department of Science and Art. He originated the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Cole - SW7
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
The plaque is actually a resin copy of the one that was attached to the original memorial for the Walworth Scouts drowned at Leysdown. Th...
The plaque does not make it clear that the early history all took place at another site; there was no church or chapel on this site until...
None of these four plaques are visible in our photo (and still this was the best position form which to take the photo!) all being hidden...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
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