Erection date: 28/8/2020
Noor Inayat Khan, GC, 1914 - 1944, SOE agent, codename 'Madeleine', stayed here.
English Heritage
WC1, Taviton Street, 4
The Covid-19 pandemic meant the unveiling ceremony took place on Facebook.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Noor Inayat Khan - Taviton Street
Spies, basically (but see below), working for the UK in WW2. Formed by Church...
WW2 spy and member of the French resistance.  A descendant of the 18th centur...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Noor Inayat Khan - Taviton Street
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
The quotation is from Browning's poem 'Saul': "I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke: I, a work of God's hand for t...
The plaques are around the station forecourt, either on frames or laid into the pavement. The gold lettering on the marble effect on the ...
The cheerful quotation is from Proverbs 9:10 and also 1:7.
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The Hooke plaque is the gray square laid into the pavement in front of the strange modern hut-like structure. The Faryner plaque is on t...
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