This building was the Head Office of W.H. Smith & Son from 1920 to 1976. The above sign was damaged by shrapnel from a German bomb during an air raid on the night of 10th October 1940.
WC2, Portugal Street
There are 3 plaques, all on the north face of this building, to the right of the entrance shown in the photograph.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna opened a small newsvendors in 1792 in Li...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
This plaque was placed on the Hospital's centenary. WH Smiths had given the H...
OK, this is not actually a memorial but it's too good to exclude on the basis...
2016: Douglas Eaton told us the plaque has gone. Checking on Google Street View history: it was still there in July 2009, then number 30 ...
The Barton, Porter & Wilkinson plaques are on the left hand wall of the porch, Chain, a later addition, is facing them on the right h...
The small black plaque above the door shows the Bridge House Estates symbol. A number of other blocks of flats in this area carry similar...
In a house on this site lived Gregory de Rokesley, eight times Mayor of London, 1274 - 1281 and 1285. The Corporation of the City of London
The original Gate House was erected here (circa 1386) at the entrance to the Bishop of London's Park.
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