This building was the Head Office of W.H. Smith & Son from 1920 to 1976. The above sign was damaged by shrapnel from a German bomb during an air raid on the night of 10th October 1940.
WC2, Portugal Street
There are 3 plaques, all on the north face of this building, to the right of the entrance shown in the photograph.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna opened a small newsvendors in 1792 in Li...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Smiths - Head Office
This plaque was placed on the Hospital's centenary. WH Smiths had given the H...
OK, this is not actually a memorial but it's too good to exclude on the basis...
The 'done' on the plaque is, we're pretty certain, a guerrilla sticker, as unwanted as all the graffiti.
Site of St Mary Woolchurch Haw The Corporation of the City of London
The portrait medallions are on the right hand flank wall, on Cumberlow Avenue. Reading left to right: W. F. R. Stanley; Mrs W. F. Stanley...
We think this may have been the sign giving the name of a ward at the hospital. It would fit in a fan-light above a door very nicely.
Ernest Christopher Dowson, poet, 1867 - 1900. lived in a house which stood on this site. London Borough of LewishamÂ
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