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In this picture, the shop is an Italian coffee and sandwich bar. Today it has changed hands and is now a Morrocan cafe doing British Sunday Lunch.
Wandsworth Bridge, designed by Sir T.Pierson Frank and built between
1936 - 1940. It replaces a five span lattice girder bridge erected in
1873 by J.H.Tolmé. This bridge over the river Thames connects Fulham on the left side to Battersea and Wandsworth on the right.
No herons, but lots of cranes.
This view was taken looking towards Central London. The bridge sequence from here is:- Battersea, Albert, Chelsea, Grosvenor (Railway), Vauxhall, Lambeth, Westminster, Hungerford (Railway and Foot), Waterloo, Blackfriars, Blackfriars (Railway), Millenium(Foot), Southwark, Cannon Street (Railway), London Bridge and Tower Bridge.
Laid Up Standard
25TH (COUNTY OF LONDON) (CYCLIST) BATTALION THE LONDON REGIMENT
1908
25th (County of London) (Cyclist) Battalion, The London Regiment The Great War Three Battalions formed
1914
1st / 25th Cyclist Battalion 2nd / 25th Cyclist Battalion
1915
3rd / 25th Cyclist Battalion
1916
Re-designated as a Territorial Battalion of The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) without change of titile 3rd / 25th Cyclist Battalion combined with 3rd / 10th Battalion to become: 10th (Reserve) Battalion
Location of operations
1st / 25th Cyclist Battalion
2nd / 25th Cyclist Battalion
1917
Waziristan
1919
Afghanistan
Battle Honours awarded to 25th (County of London) (Cyclist) Battalion, The London Regiment:
North West Frontier India 1917, Afghanistan 1919
Outside St. Peter's church, Varna Rd. SW6
UKNIWM: UKNIWM
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF
WALTER LANGLEY MARSHALL
PRIEST OF THIS CHURCH,
WHO ENTERED INTO REST JUNE 2nd 1917.
ALSO OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH, AND OF THE 3rd
FULHAM SCOUTS, WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-19
R.I.P.
"UPON THE CRUCIFIED ONE LOOK, AND THOU SHALT READ WHAT WELL IS WORTH THY LEARNING"
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"
THIS MEMORIAL WAS DEDICATED BY THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON ON THE 15th DAY OF JULY 1919
F COLE ROBINSON VICAR
W.E. HUMBER, WJ McCULLY CHURCHWARDENS
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B2 2108 on a diverted route 86, with SW6 852 on route 30 in the background in La Trobe Street between Queen & William Streets.
Unveiled 1920 by HRH Duke of York, late King George VI.
Vicarage Gardens, Fulham.
As I was googling I found this fascinating little silent film of the Duke made the same year he unveiled this plaque.