Erection date: 27/7/2010
Sir William Hooker, 1785-1865, Sir Joseph Hooker, 1817-1911, botanists, directors of Kew Gardens, lived here.
English Heritage
Plaque unveiled by Princess Alexandra.
TW9, Kew Green, 49
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Joseph and Sir William Hooker
Botanist and explorer. Born Joseph Dalton Hooker, son of Sir William, at Hale...
Botanist. Born William Jackson Hooker at 7 Magdalen Street, Norwich. He colle...
Officially, The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. They originated in the garden o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Joseph and Sir William Hooker
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Granddaughter of King George V and daughter of George, Duke of Kent. Born Ale...
Plaque unveiled by David Suchet and Loyd Grossman (then chairman of the blue plaques panel).
The plaques are on the southern end wall of the colonnade. From their position and style, including the rope borders, these two plaques w...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
There is another copy of this plaque on the other side of the bridge.
Lavender Pumphouse This was constructed by the Port of London Authority in 1930 to maintain the water level in the old Surrey Commercial ...
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