Designed by C. J. Phipps. The picture is taken from Cockspur Street. The building was badly bombed in 1940. Compare and contrast this ornate building with New Zealand House (1963) which is there now.
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Carlton Hotel, Haymarket
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Ho Chi Minh
Wikipedia questions the veracity of this plaque, while acknowledging that Ho ...
Royal Opera Arcade
The "plaque" is actually a very dull modern notice inside the arcade so for o...
Other Subjects
Daddy Vego
Barrington Adams, aka Daddy Vego - the first Jamaican to set up a static sound system, the Peoples Sound System, at the Notting Hill Carnival. In 1988 he founded his shop, the People’s Sound Recor...
1 memorial
William Isaac Palmer
Manufacturer and philanthropist. Member of the Palmer family in the Huntley and Palmer biscuit company. He funded a free library in Reading. In 1876, he purchased Hoxton Hall in Hackney on behalf o...
1 memorial
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
This foundry is the oldest manufacturing company in the UK and is still making bells at 32/34 Whitechapel Road. Probably their most famous creation is Big Ben (we thank Alice, a member of a childre...
4 memorials
David Highfield
Travel agency manager and victim of the Marchioness tragedy, aged 33.
1 memorial
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