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...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Collingham Garden
England's first home for abandoned children. Established in 1739 by Captain T...
"These gardens" no longer surround this monument as apparently they once did. It seems the monument has been moved as, according to Expl...
This ceramic plaque is lovely - the colours, the font, the design. Composed of 9 tiles inside a double frame, surrounded with a ring of b...
From the church's website: "Chosen by Calouste Gulbenkian, architect Arthur J. Davis, in partnership with Charles Mewes, designed the sch...
The plaque refers to 'wall mounted artworks' but we did not see any on our visit in 2012, unless the plaques now in the ground used to be...
Erected by Camden Borough Council Ali Mohammed Abbas, 1922 - 1979, barrister and one of the founders of Pakistan, lived here, 1945 - 1979.
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