This home for nurses, the gift of the British War Relief Society of America and other friends of King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on November 21st 1957.
{Above the text the letters ‘E' and ‘R' entwine around ‘VII'}.
W1, Beaumont Street, Agnes Keyser House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nurses' home
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nurses' home
In 1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (descended from the Royal House of Scotland...
Plaque unveiled by David Suchet and Loyd Grossman (then chairman of the blue plaques panel).
Patrick Blackett, 1897 - 1974, physicist and scientific advisor, lived here 1953 - 1969. English Heritage
David Bowie, 1947 - 2016. His albums Hunky Dory and The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the iconic Space Oddity were recorded here ...
The quotation is from the Bible, Ephesians.
Founded in 1680 by Sir William Powell to house twelve widows. Rebuilt in 1793, and again in 1869. Residency is still reserved for older w...
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