Erection date: 2011
Festival of Britain 1951, 3rd May - 3rd November, site of the Festival Pleasure Gardens 2011.
Wandsworth Council
SW11, Battersea Park, Fountain Lake
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - SW11
'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after ...
The gardens were in the northern part of Battersea Park, which had been trans...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Festival of Britain - SW11
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and ...
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1852 - 1928, Prime Minister, lived here. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
The halo and the baby would suggest the woman represented is the Virgin Mary but she may also represent the less revered mothers who were...
The plaque is to the right of the entrance.
Her Majesty was on the first train through the tunnel on its official opening journey back in 1994.
The plaque has mis-named the painting; it's actually 'Hampstead Heath, with the House Called ‘The Salt Box’'. The 1999 book 'Discovering...
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