Architect responsible for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Born Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. The Crystal Palace Company gave him, free of rent, Rockhills, a Regency house to the north of the Crystal Palace. He lived at Rockhills from 1853 until his death there.
IanVisits has a fascinating post about a scheme proposed by Paxton: the Great Victorian Way — a railway that would have run for 10 miles around central London.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Joseph Paxton
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
Building designed by: Joseph Paxton First large scale prefabricated glass and...
On this site stood Rockhills, the home of Sir Joseph Paxton MP, 1852 - 1865, ...
Museum curator and architectural historian. Born John Newenham Summerson at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. He taught at Edinburgh College of Art, and had professorships at Oxford and Camb...
Architect. Born Brighton (though the picture source has him born in Scotland). His father and brother were also architects. Active member of RIBA and its president 1919-21. Architect to the Honoura...
Architect and designer. Born Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo. In 1874, he travelled to Italy with John Ruskin to study the architecture. He later opened his own architectural practice in London, and in 1...
Architect. Born 17 Pembridge Place, Kensington. Died at Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham. Works in London: Hallfield primary school Paddington; Keeling House Bethnal Green; Royal College of Physici...
Art school. In full Staatliches Bauhaus. Founded by Walter Gropius, the name means 'building house', but in its early years it didn't actually have an architecture department. It was located initia...
Actor and theatre manager. Born at 2 Pembridge Villas. Max Beerbohm was his half-brother and cousin. Founded Her Majesty's Theatre in 1897 and ran it until his death. Founded the Royal Academy of D...
The Settlement Movement began in England and the U.S.A in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s. Its aim was to get the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent c...
Two figures in the sculpture are based on a photograph, “A relief crew damping down in Cannon Street, 17th April 1941” but we cannot find...
This naked boy sitting on his pannier (basket) is thought to refer to the bakers in the area selling their wares on the street from a bre...
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