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Plaque

Lord Ashfield - W1

Erection date: 1984

Inscription

Albert Henry Stanley, Lord Ashfield, 1874 - 1948, first Chairman of London Transport, lived here.
Greater London Council

Note the use of London Underground’s own typeface, Johnston Sans.

2020: This house was up for sale and the noted that Ashfield lived here 1918 - 1940. They add "The home hosted key meetings in the run up to the Second World War when Lord Ashfield and senior members of Neville Chamberlain’s Government planned the “Underground Downing Street” for the War Cabinet at disused Down Street Tube station. He personally oversaw the top secret conversion work, walking from South Street where his home’s principal rooms were often filled with complicated floorplans of London’s vast underground rail network. The subterranean complex was ready in late 1939 and it was used by Chamberlain and later Winston Churchill, and had the codename “The Barn”. It eventually became redundant when the Cabinet War Rooms under Whitehall became fully operational in 1940."

Site: Lord Ashfield - W1 (1 memorial)

W1, South Street, 43

The say the house "was built by J.J Stevenson in Queen Anne revival style between 1896 and 1898."

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Lord Ashfield

Transport organizer and politician. Born Albert Henry Knattriess at New Norma...

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Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...

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