SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. Laid into the platform are four bronze badges, anti-clockwise: RAF, RSF, Met Police, WAFF. They are rather fine so we have treated each one as a memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - RAF
Formed 1st April 1918 at Hotel Cecil, 80 the Strand where it had its first he...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - RAF
We don't normally collect memorials inside buildings but this one is rather touching. Austere and classical in style with none of the fo...
We captured the plaque in 2011 but failed to take a photo of the building showing the plaque in situ. It was 2017 before we managed to re...
London County Council Sir Hans Sloane, 1660 - 1753, physician, benefactor of the British Museum, lived here, 1695 - 1742.
The plaque shows a detail from a design for the silk fabric produced in Spitalfields. We believe the design shows a pomegranate in the Ja...
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall carried out the first ringing of the bell.
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