has a very useful map showing "Estate (freehold) ownership of land in Central London as of 2023". The Portman Estate is shown in yellow.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Portman Estate
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First curry house
Site of Hindoostane Coffee House 1810 London's first Indian restaurant. Owne...
Seacole - George Street
City of Westminster Mary Seacole, 1805 - 1881, Jamaican nurse, heroine of the...
Special Operations Executive (SOE)
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this plaque (in French).
Other Subjects
New Change Buildings
A massive building, constructed 1953 - 60 by the architect Victor Heal. Our picture comes via Joe Blogs from PostWarBuildings, which has a lot to say about this building, and not much is compliment...
1 memorial
12 & 14 Folgate Street
Reading left to right the five 4-storey houses in the picture are numbers 18 - 10. Â The picture source gives some detailed descriptions of the houses in their 1957 state and informs that in 1813 ou...
1 memorial
Rookfield Garden Village
Suburban housing estate in Muswell Hill, originated by William Jefferies Collins and developed by his sons William Brannan Collins and Herbert Collins. 'Rookfield Garden Estate - a study of the in...
1 memorial
Bolton Gardens, 2
Bolton Gardens where Potter lived was a row of houses on the south side of Old Brompton Road, now occupied by Bousfield Primary School. Â The 1933 picture shows just a section of number 2, at the le...
1 memorial
Haberdashers Place
Built on green fields in 1802. Destroyed by enemy action on 11th May 1941 and re-built in 1952, architect Terence C. Page.
2 memorials
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