Blue Plaques around London

[InkyBill]

As a london cabbie whilst driving around i find myself looking at the many Blue Plaques errected by National Heritage in memory of important figures who either worked or lived in the capital. I now have noticed several are WW1 related or from that period they are as follows:

Herbert Asquith - Prime Minister (Westside of Cavandish Square W1)

T. E Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia (Next to Lib Dem HQ Cowley St SW1)

H H Kitchener - Minister for War (West End of Carlton Gdns SW1)

Issac Rosenberg - Poet & Painter killed 1918 (Whitechapel Rd outside Art gallery)

Sir John Jellico - First Sea Lord (Draycott Place SW3)

Hector Hugh Munro 'Saki' - Writer killed by a sniper in 1916 (Wigmore St W1)

Andrew Bonar Law - Opposition Leader (Onslow Gdns SW7)

Winston Churchill - First Lord of the Admiralty (Sussex Square W2 & Hyde Pk Gate SW7)

Sir Hirim Maxim - Inventor of the Maxim Gun (North End of Hatton Garden EC1)

It would be intresting to know if any other WW1 related Blue Plaques exist in other parts of the country, maybe HeritagePlus could help with this. On another point it appears that a new Australian War Memorial is being constructed on Hyde Park Corner, does anyone have any info on this ?

Bill

[michaeldr]

Bill,

(per 'The Gallipolian' No.101 Spring 2003) the February issue of the Australian Army Newspaper

informed that

"Westminster City Council has approved the proposed design for the new memorial in London to Australians who served in two world wars. Site work will commence in April, with view to completion coinciding with the 85th anniversary of the end of the Great War. It will be a significant addition to Hyde Park Corner and a fitting tribute to Australians who fought alongside the British. Designs see a long curving wall of green granite, reflecting the sweep of the Australian landscape. Battlefields where Australian troops fought will be listed on the wall, superimposed by the hometowns of these service people...............................

It was designed by Sydney architecture firm Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and artist Janet Lawrence."

The Weekend Australian of 18/19 January 2003 also describes the stone to be used

"A piece of Jerramungup in a foreign field" referring to the town in WA about 90 miles north-east of Albany where Craig Wales works his quarry single-handed, the sixth generation of the family to do so. The stone, a beautiful rich green granite with almost flecks of gold, seems likely to be chosen for the memorial wall on which will be inscribed the names of the Australian towns that sent their men and women to war on August 1914.

Regards

Michael D.R.

[Graham-McAdam]

Lincoln has a plaque on the house where Lawrence of Arabia lived in digs after the war (was he based at Cranwell?). Now called Brown's Pie Shop (no lewdity, please) at the top of Steep Hill, across the road from the White Hart Hotel where Tritton and Co. plotted The Tank. Good Spot, eh!