United Kingdom / Windsor

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To commemorate the fiftieth year of the glorious reign of Victoria Queen and Empress June 20th 1887

Statue of Queen Victoria - Castle Hill, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Charles Knight 1791-1873 author, pioneer, publisher and philanthropist buried beneath this plaque

Bachelors Acre, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Sergeant Oliver Brooks VC 1889-1940 Awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery at Loos, France 1915, serving with the Coldstream Guards Lived in this house 1925-1940.

47 Clewer Avenue, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Theodore Randue 1642-1724 Bequeathed £500 to erect this building for the Royal Free School founded 1705

Royal Free School, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Margaret Oliphant 1828-97 novelist, critic, biographer lived here 1872-96

Oliphant House, Clarence Road, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Mariquita Tennant 1811-1860 lived here and started her work of helping the impoverished women of Windsor

The Lime, Mill Lane, Windsor, United Kingdom

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This house was designed and lived in by Sir Christopher Wren

Thames Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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John Milton poet lived here 1632-1638

Stanwell Road, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Jack White, open golf champion 1904 and Sunningdale Professional, lived here 1901-1926

Ridge Mount Cottage, Windsor, United Kingdom

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King George V Memorial. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, unveiled on 23rd April 1937 by King George VI

George V Memorial, Edward VII Avenue, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Glory be to God for the life of Frederic Rainer. Born 1836 Died 1911. A native of Windsor and a resident of this parish. A lover of fallen humanity and a worker in the cause of temperance to whose suggestion the Police Court Mission owed it's origin in 1876 when the Church of England Temperance Society appointed the first missionary to a South London court it's subsequent expansion led to the probation acts which now adorn the statute books of England. This tablet was erected in the year of Jubilee 1926. "Blessed be the merciful for they shall obtain mercy" S. Matthew V. 7.

The Guild Hall, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Christian Victor Captain Brevet Major Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Elder son of Prince & Princess Christian of Schleswig Holstein. Grandson of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India. Born at Windsor Castle Ap 14 1867 Died at Pretoria Oct 29 1900. Erected by his friends in admiration of his qualities as a man and a soldier

Thames Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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H. G. Wells 1866-1946 writer worked here in 1880 as a drapers' apprentice for Rodgers & Denyer 25-26 High St.

25-26 High Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Charles Knight Author Publisher Lived Here Born 1791 Died 1873

2 Castle Hill, Windsor, United Kingdom

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From 1785 to 1788 Mrs Mary Delany (1700-1788) artist and friend of Royalty lived here in a house provided by King George III. A frequent visitor was the novelist and diarist Fanny Burney (1752-1840) while engaged as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte.

Windsor Castle Wall, St Albans Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Windsor Martyrs Beyond this site, the following were martyred for their faith Henry Filmer Anthony Pierson Robert Testwood Burnt at the stake 28th July 1543

near the George V Memorial - Dachet Road / Thames Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Fred Fuzzens, 1921-1995, a local man - he strove for a perfect Windsor

Post Office, 38-39 Peascod Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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A. Y. Nutt 1847-1924 Artist and Architect lived here

63 Kings Road, Windsor, United Kingdom

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King Edward VII Gateway. Generously donated to the citizens of Windsor by Sir Jesse Boot and opened by Princess Alice Countess of Athlone in January 1921

16-18 Thames Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Freddie Shenston MBE 1912-1998 Conservationist and Founder of Windsor Heritage

Guildhall Island, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Windsor Bridge Designed by Charles Hollis and opened in 1824 Freed from tolls by the action of Joseph Taylor in 1898 Closed to vehicles in 1970

Windsor Bridge, Windsor, United Kingdom

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This tablet marks the birthplace of Robert Keayne 1595-1656 A member of the honourable Artillery Company of London A distinguished member of the colony of the Massachusetts Bay founder and first captain of the ancient and honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts the oldest military organization in America 1638 A wise and public spirited citizen a liberal patron of education. A generous contributor to the foundation of Harvard College Cambridge Massachusetts 1636

River Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Sir Sydney Camm (1893 – 1966) designer of the Hawker Hurricane of the Battle of Britain fighter lived here

10 Alma Road, Windsor, United Kingdom

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In a building on this site Sydney Camm designed and built his first powered aircraft in 1911-1913. Sir Sydney Camm C.B.E. Chief Designer of Hawker Aircraft Ltd was responsible for the design of many fighter aircraft for the Royal Air Force including the Hawker Hurricane during the World War 1939-1945 Sydney Camm 1893 – 1966

Athlone Square, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Sir Daniel Gooch BARI DL JP 1816-1889 cable laying and locomotive engineer lived in Clewer Park from 1859 these houses have his armorial bearings Supt. Great Western Railway at 21 and Chairman 1886. Engineer SS Great Eastern laying the first Atlantic cables 1865 & 1866. Buried in Clewer

Gooch Cottages, Mill Lane, Windsor, United Kingdom

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AD 1640 In this historic house Nell Gwynne lived

5 Church Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Lt. Col. Harry Greenwood VC DSO OBE MC 1881-1948 Born in Victoria Barracks Awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery at Ovillers, France in 1918 serving with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Victoria Barracks, Sheet Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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In 1487 William Evington Bequeathed this house to the parish of New Windsor and it served as The Vicarage until 1855

High Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Brigadier General Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven 1st Earl of Gowrie VC PC GCMG CB DSO 1872-1955 Born in Windsor. Awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in the Sudan in September 1898

The Hermitage, Hermitage Lane, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Daniel Gooch Bart MP JP 1816-1889 Locomotive and Telegraphic Engineer Chairman of Great Western Railway Lived at Clewer Park, Windsor 1859-1889

Royal Shopping Centre in the Windsor & Eton Railway Station, Windsor, United Kingdom

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Queen Charlotte Street which is fifty one feet ten inches in length is recorded as the shortest street in Britain

Queen Charlotte Street, Windsor, United Kingdom

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