The damage to these walls is the result of enemy bombing during the Blitz of the Second World War 1939 – 1945 and is left as a memorial to the enduring values of this great museum in a time of conflict.
In 2017 parts of the wall were . . . — — Map (db m120421) HM
Chelsea Embankment
Opened May 1874
Lieut. Col. Sir James MacNaghten Hoog K.C.B. M.P.
Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette C.B.
Engineer — — Map (db m121421) HM
Elfin Oak
Originally carved in 1911 and maintained
for over 40 years by sculptor Ivor Inne
With grateful thanks also to Spike Milligan CBE and
his friends whose interest and support enabled
complete restoration of the wee folk . . . — — Map (db m121943) HM
In Affectionate Remembrance of the Late
George Sparkes
Of Bromley in Kent Formerly Judge at Madras
In the East India Company’s Civil Service
A great and Good Man
Gifted with Every Refined Feeling
And Much Esteemed by All Who Knew Him . . . — — Map (db m121419) HM
Orangery Project
The Kensington Palace Pavilion
What is happening here?
Following our 2012 transformation which opened up the East Front gardens and reconnected the palace to the park, we have now turned our attention to the Orangery . . . — — Map (db m130433) HM
Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea
The Worshipful the Mayor
Councillor Lady Heath laid this stone
on 11th March, 1964 to commemorate
the constructon of Ropers Garden
on the site of buildings destroyed
by parachute mine on 17th april 1941. . . . — — Map (db m121422) HM
To the memory of
Sir Hans Sloane B.A.P.
President of the Royal Society
and of the College of Physicians
who in the year of our Lord 1753,
the 92d of his age,
without the least pain of body
and with a conscious serenity of mind
ended . . . — — Map (db m121396) HM
English Heritage
Sir
Henry Cole
1808 – 1882
Campaigner and Educator
First Director of the
Victoria and Albert Museum
lived here — — Map (db m120423) HM
Unveiled by
Admiral Sir Caspar John, G.C.B.
3rd June 1972
This carving by
Jacob Epstein
Commemorates the Years
1901 – 1914 when
He lived and worked
In a studio on this site
Which was originally
Sit Thomas More’s Orchard . . . — — Map (db m121423) HM
The Boy David
by Bainbridge Copnall MBE PPRBS.
A memorial to the members of the
Machine Gun Corps
who served in World War One
This bronze fibreglass statue was sculptured by
E. Bainbridge Copnall 1903 – 1973
and set on the . . . — — Map (db m121394) HM WM
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Chelsea
Physic Garden
Was established by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London in 1673 and is the oldest botanic garden, after Oxford, in England. A statue of Sir Hans Sloane, an early . . . — — Map (db m121388) HM
This memorial was placed here by members of all parties in both houses of Parliament and by many other sympathisers in memory of the countless innocent men women and children from the Soviet Union and other East European states who were imprisoned . . . — — Map (db m120424) HM
Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honour
[Star of David]
A Jewish pre-war British spy, Vera joined Special Operations Executive (SOE), as an Intelligence Squadron Officer, F Section, . . . — — Map (db m203193) HM
( left plaque )
This stone was laid by Her Majesty Queen Victoria Empress of India, on the 17th day of May 1899, in the 62nd year of her reign, for the completion of the South Kensington Museum, inaugurated by his Royal Highness the . . . — — Map (db m120422) HM
Here In Front of the Palace Where She Was Born
and Where She Resided Until Her Accession,
Her Royal Kensington Subjects Erect This Statue.
The Work of Her Daughter,
to Commemorate Fifty Years of Her Reign. — — Map (db m121944) HM
