The South Kensington Museum opened on this site in 1857. It expanded and was renamed the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1899. A further expansion by Aston Webb opened in 1909. Also see Francis Fowke for the buildings that he designed.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Victoria & Albert Museum
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Sir Henry Cole - SW7
English Heritage Sir Henry Cole, 1808 - 1882, campaigner and educator, first...
V&A façade foundation stone, Edward
This building, being the completion of the Victoria and Albert Museum, was op...
V&A façade foundation stone, Victoria
This was the Queen's last official appearance. Via Londonist we found this V&...
War damage at V&A
The text is engraved on the wall at the new (2017) entrance in Exhibition Roa...
Other Subjects
British Library
16 years between the laying of the foundation stone in 1982 and the opening in 1998. The Independent explains the delay: "The reason it has taken so long to build ... has relatively little to do w...
3 memorials
Bennet Woodcroft
Inventor, industrial archaeologist, leading figure in patent reform and the first clerk to the commissioners of patents. Born Lancashire. Appointed professor of machinery at University College Lond...
1 memorial
Henry King Lewis
Founded H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. in 1844 at 136 Gower St. 24 Gower Place added 1907. Incorporated 1915. Found on the web: "H K Lewis & Co Ltd, booksellers. Founded by Henry King Lewis in 1844...
1 memorial
Major Ernest Edward Austen, DSO
Ernest Edward Austen was born in 1867 in Dalston, Middlesex (now Greater London), the eldest of the five children of Ambrose Austen (1838-1924) and Eliza Burnet Austen née Smith (1839-1916). His bi...
War served, Other war
1 memorial
Sir Ashton Lever
Natural history collector. Born at the family seat near Manchester where he also died. His museum was at Leicester House on the northern side of Leicester Square and called the Holophusikon, or Hol...
1 memorial
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Royal Society of Arts
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee House. They carried on meeting in coffee houses and taverns but as the society grew they needed more space. Shipley rented ...
17 memorials
Edward the Confessor
King of England. Son of Ethelred the Unready. Born between 1003 and 1005 at Islip, near Oxford. He is regarded as the last king of the house of Wessex. Little is known of his early life, except tha...
4 memorials
15 memorials
Caius Gabriel Cibber
Sculptor. Born Denmark. Came to England in about 1655 and arrived in London by 1660. Also carved the amazing statues of Melancholy and Raving Madness that used to adorn the entrance gates of Bethl...
4 memorials
Old Admiralty Building
SW1, Whitehall, Old Admiralty Building
The plaques are on the southern end wall of the colonnade. From their position and style, including the rope borders, these two plaques w...
12 subjects commemorated
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