Wakerley Plaque On Gwendolen Road, Leicester

Wakerley Plaque On Gwendolen Road, Leicester
Wakerley Plaque On Gwendolen Road, Leicester
Wakerley Plaque On Gwendolen Road, Leicester
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Title
Wakerley Plaque On Gwendolen Road, Leicester
Description
CHARLES ST- GOSLING ST (CDV)
Strongroom Stack 24
Crown Hills
"Wakerley Plaque" - wall plaque with poem of Wakerley
Leicester
1/4 Glass plate negative
Lumbers 126.1962
GP3482

Negatives Collection, Leicestershire Record Office

A plaque on the back wall of Crown Hills House, Gwendolen Road, Leicester. Crown Hills was the residence of Arthur Wakerley, an architect who designed many buildings in Leicester. He was also Mayor of the city in 1897. Gwendolen Rd is named after his daughter, and other streets are named after three of his other children (Dorothy, Constance, and Margaret).

The plaque reads:
"Do I bear
ARMS
yes two
like you
My
CHARGE is yonder golden FIELD
Which doth
the world's
SUPPORTERS
yield.
My
BADGE
Perhaps you'll hear it crow
If you're A. WAKERLEY you know"
LCC ID. No.
GP3482
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