sps1955's photos with the keyword: World War One

The wrought-iron war memorial screen and gates of 1926, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, seen through the entrance arch of the Tavistock Square front , with the west front of Lutyens' building , originally designed as the headquarters of the British Theosophical Society from 1911, but completed for the BMA, 1923-5, beyond. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1378968 .

According to the English Heritage listing , this wing of the school was built c.1920, but a more detailed history of the school says that the wing was added in 1911 (a date confirmed by www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66716 ), with the clock added as a war memorial in 1919. The inclusion of the "1919" date, marking the year of the Versailles Treaty (rather than 1918, the year of the armistice), is interesting.

Erected in 1921, according to www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/CambridgeGasCompany... , which gives details of the men commemorated. A ball and cross have been lost from the top since the photograph on that page was taken in 2010. The design of the upper parts may perhaps have been inspired by Hobson's Conduit , although the top of the memorial is octagonal whereas the conduit head is hexagonal.