Erection date: 1951
Collingham Garden
The use of this ground for the welfare of children for all time has been bequeathed under the will of John Cyril Lees Collingham who died on May 28th 1936.
Erected by the Governors of the Foundling Hospital 1951.
WC1, Brunswick Square, Coram Family
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Collingham Garden
John Cyril Lees Collingham was born in 1865, the second of the six children o...
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Collingham Garden
England's first home for abandoned children. Established in 1739 by Captain T...
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this plaque (in French).
Beautiful filigree carved text. Compare the typeface with that at Abbaye de la Cambre. Â This was erected the year after Charlotte died ...
June 2016: We were astonished to see that not only had this plaque gone but the entire run of buildings has evaporated into thin air. The...
Trying to understand the right hand panel: the 'south vestry' is probably the small flat-roofed extension, similar to this one, but on th...
Greater London Council Lord Lugard, 1858-1945, colonial administrator, lived here, 1912-1919.
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