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 vertical line down the plaque is not a fault with our camera, but a rope hanging from a flagpole.
The plaque is a one-off in a delicate serif typeface. The off-set string course suggests that the plaque was designed into the building. ...
Amis's birthplace is disputed - see his page for the details.
"The beauty of trees..." is a quotation from Hutcheson.
The small blue plaque is to the left of the ground floor window.
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