Located at 26 - 30 Kensington Palace Gardens, the building occupies the site of a mid-nineteenth century Italinate villa. Before 1993, when the Czech Republic came into existence, the building was the then Czechoslovak Embassy.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Embassy of the Czech Republic
Unveiled on Czech National Day.
General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union, 1940 until his death. Born Warwickshire. Died Leicester where he had been addressing a May Day rally. Alamy have a lovely photo of D...
London borough. Formed by the merging of the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith and the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham. It was known as the London Borough of Hammersmith until its name was changed...
From Osbert Sitwell's 1928 'People's Album of London Statues' (pp 71-2): "John Mills Hiccocks, son and heir of William Hiccocks of South Lambeth, Surrey, was admitted as a member of the Middle Temp...
Arthur Leonard George Leggatt was born on 19 June 1935, the son of Arthur Edward Leggatt (1910-1967) and Lilian Leggatt née Charlton (1915-1955). His birth was registered in the Edmonton registrati...
That looks to us very much like the bust that Maisky and his wife unveiled at Holford Gardens, unfinished of course.
The plaque is on the westbound platform.
Artist, film director, stage designer, writer, gardener, and queer activist. Born as Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman in Northwood. Had a studio at Butler's Wharf in the 1970s. Died of an AIDS-related...
The Town Hall in Euston Road once housed these interesting murals by Cecil Osborne.
LMA refers to this man in association with leases for Holy Trinity School, 1915 - 26, giving his address as 45 Thornhill Road (the vicarage). Kelly's Directory helpfully informs that from 1926 he h...
Author and artist. Born Mary Caldwell. She studied art and became a children's book illustrator. Her husband Herbert Tourtel, was news editor of the Daily Express. In 1920 the newspaper was looking...
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