W2, Connaught Place, 16
We photographed this at first just because it is such a lovely window. Then we noticed that the flowers are poppies, well known to commemorate the dead in the two world wars. Surely a war memorial. We emailed the company in this building at the time (2013) asking for more information but got not reply.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Poppy window
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
The two figures on the broken pediment represent lameness and sickness.
We understand "the neighbouring fire officers" to mean the four fire assurance companies represented by their insignia on the four sides ...
This is a finely detailed piece of sculpture and you don't have to look too close to see that the lion and the unicorn are what, in the l...
This memorial is on the first floor facade of the building, to the left of the windows. The style, with the lettering carved into the bri...
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