We will remember them,
Station Officer - L. W. G. Wilson
Auxiliary Freman - F. Mitchell
who gave their lives at Soho Fire Station on 7th October 1940.
W1, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho Fire Station, 126
These plaques are all inside and normally inaccessible but, for the 2018 Pride in London Soho fire station held an open day and we took our opportunity.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Soho Fire Station - Wilson and Mitchell
The picture source provides: "On the evening of Oct. 7, 1940, Soho fire stati...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Auxiliary Fireman - one of two men (with L. W. G. Wilson) who gave their live...
Station Officer - One of two men (with Frederick Mitchell) who gave their li...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Soho Fire Station - Wilson and Mitchell
In a 2012 European Trade Union Institute publication concerning firefighters'...
From Emergency we know that this plaque was erected on or before 19 July 2017.
The report in the glazed stand contain this text: Barry Trussell died a month after a fire in the Intensive Care Unit of Tooting’s St Ge...
Greater London Council Sir Hiram Maxim, 1840 - 1916, inventor and engineer designed and manufactured The Maxim Gun in a workshop on thes...
There is evidence that Lindsay lived with her parents and siblings in this road at number 29 and also at number 3. Our colleague Andrew B...
Born Whitechapel, Albarn lived here until he was aged 9. He unveiled his own plaque and the local Guardian quoted him: "I remember cows c...
Despite the address the building with its plaque is actually in Devonshire Street.
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