WAFF
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 - WAFF
Formed by the British Colonial Office and served in WW1 and WW2. In 1928 bec...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - WAFF
"Charles Bristow : he built it" To the memory of Charles Alfred Bristow, 1896 - 1985, Founder-President and for over 50 years, coach and ...
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
We've put the pin for these 6 plaques at the entrance to the alleyway but they are actually laid into the ground, distributed along the a...
This is where Carlyle died. We know 'Sc.' indicates the sculptor, but 'Delt.'? We asked a member of the museum staff who told us it i...
The Gamages/Benetfink plaque was brought to our attention by this post at A London Inheritance. In our photo you can see a path leading ...
A montage of scenes, all relevant to the area at the time: construction activities, the Post Office tower, an angry cat, a TV screen adve...
Merchant and banker. Born in Willesley, then in Derbyshire but now in Leicestershire. One of the first directors of the Bank of England. Lord Mayor of London 1700-01. That was an exciting time for...
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