Erection date: 28/9/2024
Fanny Wilkinson, 1855 - 1951, the first woman to become a professional garden designer in Britain, laid out these gardens in 1885 while working for the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association.
Unveiled by local resident and actor Tim McInnerny.
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WC1, Red Lion Square, Garden
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Fanny Wilkinson stone
A charity for the preservation of public parks and gardens in London. It faci...
Fanny Rollo Wilkinson was the first professional female landscape designer in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Fanny Wilkinson stone
Benjamin Britten O.M.,1913-1976, composer, lived here 1931-1933. English Heritage
The plaque was erected 50 years after the Junior Institution of Engineers was founded, as the Vulcanic Society.
Radclyffe Hall, 1880 - 1943, novelist and poet, lived here, 1924 - 1929. English Heritage
Note that the plaque says that not only was a new building erected but also that the site was extended into the adjacent ground.
The plaque on the brick wall in the picture reads: The BBC Star Terrace, "Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love" Sylvie Dee. De...
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