Hurst House - small plaque
IG8, Broomhill Walk, 1, Hurst House
The two plaques can be seen in our photo, on the front boundary, towards the left. This house, originally known as the Naked Beauty, was...
Lady Barbirolli
NW3, Buckland Crescent, 13
Although there is no indication on the plaque, we have found that it was erected by the Public Memorials Appeal.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Woodford telephone exchange
IG8, Snakes Lane West, 4, British Telecom
Plaques are often not perfectly straight but for this one we really had to decide whether to show the wall or the plaque squiffy - we wen...
1 subject commemorated
Clattern Bridge
KT1, High Street Kingston
Londonist have a very informative post on this, London's oldest surviving bridge.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
West Middlesex Water Works - Hampstead
NW3, Platt's Lane, 16, Windsor Court
The '1806' refers to the origins of the company, in Hammersmith.
1 subject commemorated
Battersea Park
SW11, Carriage Drive North
The plaque definitively names Victoria Docks {sic} as the source of the soil used to raise the level of the drained fields. However Thame...
7 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Rutland Park Mansions, PCHA
NW2, Rutland Park, Rutland Park Mansions
We doubt we would have worked out what PCHA stood for without the ever-useful Geograph: "An article in an October 1993 issue of Construct...
2 creators
Sergeant Ray Holmes
SW1, Buckingham Palace Road
This plaque arrived some time June/Aug 2022. On site it's not possible to get close enough to read it with the naked eye.
1 subject commemorated
The Mitre Public House - Greenwich
SE10, Greenwich High Road, 291
The pub is actually within the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, so it is being deceptively boastful by claiming that it has receiv...
2 subjects commemorated
T. G. Masaryk
NW3, Platt's Lane, 21
At the bottom right of the plaque, beside the screw head, there is a small imprint, illegible but looks like "DEDED" / "II ???", probably...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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