Sir Morell MacKenzie, 1837 - 1892, founded the world's first hospital for diseases of the throat in a building on this site in 1865. — — Map (db m145193) HM
Sir Robert Grosvenor
First Marquess of Westminster
1767 – 1845
“When we build, let us think we build forever” John Ruskin
( side plaque )
The Grosvenor Family came to England with William the Conqueror and . . . — — Map (db m118100) HM
Sir Walter Besant
Novelist
Historian of London
Secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Originator of the People’s Palace
and
Founder of the Society of Authors
This Monument is Erected
by
His Grateful Brethren in Literature . . . — — Map (db m117971) HM
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bt
Of Brayton Cumberland
Born September 4, 1829
Died July 1, 1906
Member of Parliament
For Carlisle Cockermouth
Camborne 1859-1906.
President of the
United Kingdom Alliance
1879-1906
( right side . . . — — Map (db m117960) HM
To the glory of God
and in memory of those
once scholars of this
school who gave their
lives for King & Country
in the Great War 1914-1918
Let thy perpetual light
shine upon them O Lord — — Map (db m120763) WM
St Margaret's Church
Westminster Abbey
Visitors are welcome to this beautiful church. The present building, consecrated in 1523, is the third on the site. Since 1614 St Margaret's has been the church of the House of Commons. Windows commemorate . . . — — Map (db m117907) HM
( marker between the columns )
The Church
Of This Parish
Having Been
Destroyed By Fire
On The
XVIIth Day of Septr
A.D. MDCCXC,
Was Rebuilt,
And Opened
For Divine Service
On The
Ist Day of August
A.D. MDCCXCVIII . . . — — Map (db m118777) HM
At 4 Panton Street was the Headquarters of the mostly Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women's organisation.
The 43 Group
They confronted the British neo-fascist movement in 1946-50 and early 1960s to rid Britain of anti-Semitism and all . . . — — Map (db m216002) HM
The Audley name can be found associated with kings & nobility throughout English history.
1127 Henry I restored a knighthood on his son-in-law Geoffrey of Anjou. Geoffrey's grandson William Longspree (illegitimate son of Henry II), the . . . — — Map (db m109093) HM
The
Bear & Staff
A public house by this name has occupied this site on Bear Street since 1714 with the current building dating from 1878 when it was rebuilt. “The Bear & Staff" takes its name from a heraldic sign normally referring to the . . . — — Map (db m122351) HM
A building of historic
significance
William & Mary Period
c1690 -1700
Grade II listed
former home of the
Beaverbrook Foundation
established by
Lord Beaverbrook
1879 -1964 — — Map (db m121081) HM
The Bomber Command Memorial was built to commemorate the sacrifice of the 55,573 airmen who lost their lives serving in Bomber Command during World War Two.
The Memorial, which was unveiled on 28 June 2012 in the presence of Her Majesty The . . . — — Map (db m118091) HM WM
These figures known as
The Burghers of Calais
commemorate six citizens of that town
who offered themselves
as hostages to Edward III
after he had vainly besieged their town
for nearly a year in 1317.
The story goes that their . . . — — Map (db m111426) HM
The Buxton Memorial was erected to commemorate the emancipation of slaves following the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.
The memorial was donated by Charles Buxton MP in memory of his father, Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, and those associated with him . . . — — Map (db m109084) HM
[English side:]
To commemorate the Raising of the Siege of Cadiz, in consequence of the Glorious Victory obtained by the Duke of Wellington over the French at Salamanca, on the 22d July 1812: This Mortar, cast for the destruction of . . . — — Map (db m113937) WM
The Cambridgee
The Cambridge as we see it today was built in 1887 but there has been a pub at this address since 1744 when it was called the Kings Arms. The name of the pub comes directly from the time Prince George, the Duke of Cambridge, opened . . . — — Map (db m122356) HM
Nicholoson’s
The Coal Hole
The original Coal Hole was located in a cellar in Fountain Court, a few yards from our present establishment. Its name seems to have derived from the coal heavers who worked nearby on the River Thames.
Edmund Kean, . . . — — Map (db m122113) HM
The Commonwealth - a Family of Nations
This panel celebrates the historic 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which brought together the leaders of the 53 sovereign nations of the Commonwealth family.
The creation of the modern . . . — — Map (db m118060) HM
The Crown sits on
the site of one of the
most well known and
popular concert halls,
The Hickford Rooms.
During the first half
of the 18th Century
it was the most
prestigious music hall
in London.
One notable concert
of its later days
was . . . — — Map (db m121355) HM
A Dog & Duck tavern has been on this site since at least 1734. The 18th Century pub was demolished in 1897, to be replaced by the present building.
It is thought to have one of London's most exquisite interiors of the late Victorian period. The . . . — — Map (db m111740) HM
Edgar Wallace was born April 1st, 1875 in Greenwich, London. When he was nine days old, Richard Horatio Edgar, was adopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate Fish Market, and grew up under the adopted name of Dick Freeman. At 11, he started . . . — — Map (db m111140) HM
The Flying Horse is the last remaining pub on Oxford Street. The current building was built in 1892 and had been called The Tottenham since then. Prior to 1892, another pub called The Flying Horse was located on the site which dates back to at least . . . — — Map (db m111433) HM
( left column )
In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the political oponents of Sir Robert Walpole met using the title of the Fountain Club
Also the Coal Hole the meeting place of the Wolf Club of which about . . . — — Map (db m122103) HM
The George was founded in 1723 as a coffee house, became Georges Hotel in 1830 and then a public house as it is today. Former regulars of The George include Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson, who for a while used The George as his . . . — — Map (db m111181) HM
The Gurkha
Soldier
Bravest of the Brave
Most Generous of the Generous
Never Had Country
More Faithful Friends
Than You
Professor Sir Ralph Furner MC
( rear bronze plaque )
First World War
1914 — 1918 . . . — — Map (db m118813) HM WM
The
Hampton Site
In the sixteenth century this site adjoined the Royal Mews and was an area of stables and coach houses. Whitcomb Street was known as Hedge Lane. The Duke of Monmouth owned property here and gave his name to Monmouth Court which . . . — — Map (db m117769) HM
Mayor of London
The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
b. 1973, New York
In 2006 Michael Rakowitz started his project The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist to recreate over 7,000 archaeological artefacts looted from the Iraq . . . — — Map (db m118037) HM
The Jewel Tower was built for King Edward III in 1365-66 by Henry Yevele, the 'deviser of the King's works of masonry'. It formed part of the king's palace and was designed as a private treasury.
The walls are mainly built of Kentish . . . — — Map (db m111722) HM
Henry Irving was the first actor to be knighted (1895).
From 1878 - 1902 he managed the Lyceum Theatre.
Whilst working at the Lyceum as Irving's acting manager,
Bram Stoker wrote Dracula.
This plaque was unveiled by Ian McKellen (KBE . . . — — Map (db m120961) HM
A Debt of Honour
The Memorial Gates
This Memorial was inaugurated by Her Majesty The Queen during the Golden Jubilee Year, 2002. It commemorates the service and sacrifices of five million men and women from the Indian Sub-continent, Africa and . . . — — Map (db m118065) WM
Pelicans were first introduced to St Jame's Park in 1664 as a gift from the Russian Ambassador to King Charles II. This was the beginning of a long tradition of keeping exotic wildfowl that continues to this day.
A mysterious arrival . . . — — Map (db m109291) HM
The Porcupine
The Porcupine has occupied the same location on Charing Cross Road since 1725 when the pub's address was 1 Castle Street. The Porcupine soon established itself as a favourite haunt of the local freemasons and in 1807 it became the . . . — — Map (db m122353) HM
These
two houses
were the
Portuguese Embassy
1724 - 1747
The
Marquess of Pombal
Portuguese Statesman
Ambassador
1739-1744
lived here — — Map (db m111128) HM
Welcome to The Queen’s Meadow
Occupying just over an acre of the west end of the green Park, the Queen’s Meadow was seeded by HRH The Prince of Wales as part of the Coronation Meadows project.
Inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales to . . . — — Map (db m118064) HM
The Three Greyhounds, an old English pub of around 1910, has a mock Tudor exterior made using artificial timbering, lead casements, small gables and big lanterns. The premises have been licensed since 1847, before when it was home to various shops, . . . — — Map (db m109256) HM
The Trafalgar Way
At Canada House
On Monday, 21" October 1805 the Royal Navy decisively defeated the Combined Fleet of France and Spain off Cape Trafalgar south of Cadiz. This victory permanently removed the threat of invasion of England by the . . . — — Map (db m118038) HM WM
Field Marshall
The Viscount Slim
KG GCB GCMG GCVO GBE DSO MC
14th Army Burma
1943 – 1945
Governor General and
Commander in Chief
Australia 1953 – 1960
Kohima · Imphal · Arakan
( on each side of the pedestal . . . — — Map (db m117922) HM WM
Nicholson’s
Est. 1873
The
Wellington
The Wellington is
named after the great
general and prime minister
Arther Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
whose victory over Napoleon
in 1815 brought an end to
the Napoleonic Wars.
The pub . . . — — Map (db m118810) HM
The Yacht London
1927 The Beginning
The Yacht London (“St. Katherine”) was commissioned in 1927 as a survey and inspection vessel by the Port of London Authority from boat builders Philip & Son Ltd of Dartmouth for the princely . . . — — Map (db m118306) HM
Trafalgar Square is the centre for national rejoicing and assemblies and rallies of various causes. It is on the sit of former Royal Mews and stables dating back to the days of Edward I (1272-1307). The present square was laid out between 1840 and . . . — — Map (db m118033) HM
Trenchard
1873 – 1956
( back )
Marshal of the Royal Air force
The Viscount Trenchard
G.C.B. O.M. G.C.V.O. D.S.O.
Chief of the Air Staff 1918 1919 - 1929
Royal Scots Fusiliers 1893 – 1919
West African Frontier . . . — — Map (db m117943) HM WM
Near this spot, at the Kings Bench at the South end of the Hall, took place the trial of Sir William Wallace the Scottish Patriot on Monday, 23rd August 1305 — — Map (db m85742) HM
Made by Murad, son of Abdullah
Chief gunner in 1524 taken in
Egypt by the British Army 1801
The gun is inscribed
The Solomon of the age the Great Sultan Commander
the dragon guns (to be made) When they breathe roaring
like thunder. . . . — — Map (db m109532) HM
Thomas Twining (1675-1741) founded the House of Twining by purchasing the original Toms Coffee House at the back of this site in 1706, where he introduced tea. In 1717 he opened the Golden Lyon here as a shop to sell tea and coffee.
In 1787 . . . — — Map (db m118773) HM
Whilst this panel is not on the Jubilee Walkway, it looks out over the Thames, once a great thoroughfare of London, along which many boats pass daily. From here there’s a fine view of London’s fast-changing skyline on the South Bank of the Thames. . . . — — Map (db m118305) HM
The first person to suggest a river embankment was Sir Christopher Wren after the fire of London in 1666. Work eventually began in 1864, despite opposition from commercial interests, notably the wharfingers. It was carried out under the control . . . — — Map (db m222548) HM
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 — — Map (db m109549) HM
W.T. Stead
1840 1912
This memorial to a journalist of wide renown was erected near the spot where he worked for more than thirty years by journalists of many lands in recognition of his brilliant gifts fervent spirit & untiring devotion to the . . . — — Map (db m118302) HM
The qvadrica svrmovnting this arch was presented to the nation as a mark of deepest loyalty and respect to his late revered Majesty Edward VII by Herbert First Baron Michelham of Hellingly KCVO.
MCMXII — — Map (db m118092) HM WM
Upon this spot, formerly the site of Westminster Hospital, a house of God for divine service, according to the congregational faith and order, was erected by the “Metropolis Chapel Building Fund Association,” under the name of Westminster . . . — — Map (db m198796) HM
This tree was planted on 24th October 1990
by Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret
in Honor of
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s
90th birthday — — Map (db m118061) HM
City of Westminster
London Memorial Garden
Under these trees people of all faiths and nationalities, united in grief, laid wreaths in memory of those killed on 7th July 2005, following the attacks on London's public transport system.
The City . . . — — Map (db m117965) HM
Distiller, Politician, Cricket Player, Benefactor
This alehouse is part of the Nicholson's heritage collection. They're all different, yet they all owe something to the man who founded them. William Nicholson was a Victorian all-rounder - . . . — — Map (db m111741) HM
William Nicholson
( 1824 – 1909 )
Distiller, Politician,
Cricket Player, Benefactor
This alehouse is part of the Nicholson's heritage collection. They're all different, yet they all owe something to the man who founded them. William . . . — — Map (db m122246) HM
William Nicholson
( 1824 – 1909 )
Distiller, Politician,
Cricket Player, Benefactor
This alehouse is part of the Nicholson's heritage collection. They're all different, yet they all owe something to the man who founded them. William . . . — — Map (db m122354) HM
William Nicholson
( 1824 – 1909 )
Distiller, Politician,
Cricket Player, Benefactor
This alehouse is part of the Nicholson's heritage collection. They're all different, yet they all owe something to the man who founded them. William . . . — — Map (db m122357) HM
William Nicholson
( 1824 – 1909 )
Distiller, Politician,
Cricket Player, Benefactor
This alehouse is part of the Nicholson's heritage collection. They're all different, yet they all owe something to the man who founded them. William . . . — — Map (db m122575) HM
This enclosure was purchased, laid out and decorated as a garden by Albert Grant Esqre M.P. and conveyed by him on the 2nd July 1874 to the Metropolitan Board of Works to be preserved for ever for the free use and enjoyment of the public. — — Map (db m117782) HM
First translator of the New Testament into English from the Greek. Born A.D. 1484, died a martyr at Vilvorde in Belgium, A.D. 1536.
"Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path" - "the entrance of thy words giveth light." Psalm CXIX. . . . — — Map (db m111743) HM
