What is London Remembers?
The aim of this website is to document all the memorials in London. That's the plaques, monuments, statues, fountains, etc, that commemorate a person, an event, a building, etc. It's an aim we don't think we will ever achieve but we will enjoy the attempt.
Memorial types
Fountain
138 memorials
Gates
21 memorials
Ghost bike
31 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
27 memorials
Monument
321 memorials
Mural
91 memorials
Latest Memorials
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Finchley Toll Gate
N3, East End Road, 1
We first photographed this plaque some years ago when the building was The Queen's Head public house.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Don Luigi Sturzo
W2, Gloucester Terrace, 213
Don Luigi Sturzo, 1871 - 1959, Italian political leader, lived here in exile from Italy between 1926 and 1933 as a guest of his friends B...
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Brick Lane, Brixton and Soho bombs
E1, Brick Lane, 25, Police Office
The plaque was unveiled by John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets and Mark Healey founder of Hate Crime Awareness Week.
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Marcus Garvey - Willesden Library
NW10, High Road, 95, Willesden Green Old Library Building
The bust was unveiled on Garvey's 129th birthday, and is now inside a glass case in the museum at the library, but we cannot discover who...
1 subject commemorated
Willesden Library - Shakespeare
NW10, High Road, 95, Willesden Green Old Library Building
We think that hiding below hundreds of layers of whitewash is a fine relief bust of Shakespeare. This is at the top of the pargeting (dec...
1 subject commemorated
Latest Subjects
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Finchley Toll Gate
Our picture is taken from an old map showing London toll gates (black circles), but strangely, nothing appears in Finchley.
1 memorial
Barbara Barclay Carter
A Catholic convert who translated Italian writing and promoted the Italian democratic cause. Born California, but brought up in England and studied in France. From TerraNouvelle: "... she intervie...
Person, Friend / family, Literature, France, Italy, Switzerland, USA
1 memorial
Don Luigi Sturzo
Italian Catholic priest and prominent politician, one of the fathers of the Christian democratic platform. One of the founders of the Italian People's Party in 1919, but was forced into exile in 19...
1 memorial
John Biggs
John Robert Biggs is a Labour Co-op politician who was the directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets 2015-22.
1 memorial
Brick Lane bomb
The bomb was planted by Neo-Nazi David Copeland, who was also responsible for the attacks in Brixton (17 April) and the Admiral Duncan pub (30 April) in Soho. Brick Lane has a large Bangladeshi c...
1 memorial
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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Puzzle-corner
Rosslyn Heights
Rosslyn Gardens, the red-brick mansions on the northern side of this road (now nos. 4-26 Belsize Lane) was built about 1881.
2 subjects