Erection date: 27/7/2010
Sir William Hooker, 1785-1865, Sir Joseph Hooker, 1817-1911, botanists, directors of Kew Gardens, lived here.
English Heritage
Plaque unveiled by Princess Alexandra.
TW9, Kew Green, 49
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Joseph and Sir William Hooker
Botanist and explorer. Born Joseph Dalton Hooker, son of Sir William, at Hale...
Botanist. Born William Jackson Hooker at 7 Magdalen Street, Norwich. He colle...
Officially, The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. They originated in the garden o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Joseph and Sir William Hooker
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Granddaughter of King George V and daughter of George, Duke of Kent. Born Ale...
The weather vane depicts a grid-iron, the instrument used for the torture which led to the martyrdom of St Lawrence. The shaft supportin...
William Willett, 1856 - 1915, noted house builder and initiator of British Summer Time, lived here. The London Borough of Bromley
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site.  In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
Sir Geraint Evans, 1922 - 1992, opera singer and producer, lived here. The London Borough of Bromley
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