Air Chief Marshall {sic}, Lord Dowding, 1882 - 1970, leader of Fighter Command, lived in a house on this site 1941 - 1951.
This plaque (complete with a misspelling) replaces the English Heritage original which was erected on the previous house on this site, the house in which Dowding lived.
SW19, St. Mary's Road, 3
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Air Chief Marshal Dowding - SW19 - replacement plaque
Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG, RAF, Baron of Bentley Priory ...
Site of Grey Friars Monastery, 1225 - 1538. The Corporation of the City of London
This is a lovely plaque but the fireman's helmet on a plaque for a police constable is odd. It doesn't even seem as if a fire was involved.
Bob Speel informs that this roundel was designed by Lethaby and modelled by Thornycroft.
This building was the first to operate solely as a public post office in Westminster. It was this article in Londonist that drew our att...
London County Council Site of the business premises of Thomas Earnshaw, 1749 - 1829, noted watch and chronometer maker.
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