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
131 memorials
Gates
20 memorials
Ghost bike
29 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
25 memorials
Monument
317 memorials
Mural
89 memorials
Latest Memorials
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Manze's Pie and Mash Shop - SE1
SE1, Tower Bridge Road, 87
The plaque is on a shelf inside the shop.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Manze's Pie and Mash Shop - E17
E17, High Street Walthamstow, 76
This building was Grade II Listed in 2013: "L Manze Eel, Pie and Mash Shop on Walthamstow High Street was acquired in 1929 by Luigi Manze...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Post Office Railway
WC1, Phoenix Place, 15 - 20
'Mail Rail' - Post Office Railway, 1927 - 2003, 6½ mile, 2 ft gauge, driverless underground railway, linking postal sorting offices, and ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Mellow Mix Studios in Hackney
E8, Mare Street, Hackney Picture House
The Hackney Citizen reported that the names on the plaque are all "late African-Caribbean musicians with 'strong ties' to Hackney".
29 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Hackney Central Hall and Library - foundation
E8, Mare Street, Hackney Picture House
The Hackney Central Library was opened in 1908. It shut in the 1990s and in 1999 a new library opened in Town Hall Square, on the other ...
2 creators
Latest Subjects
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Manze's pie and mash shops
The Manze family came to Bermondsey from Ravello in Italy. Initially they were ice-merchants, and then ice-cream makers. Michele Manze branched out and opened their first eel, pie and mash shop in ...
2 memorials
Post Office Railway
The Post Office Railway carried post from Paddington Head Sorting office to Eastern Head Sorting Office in Whitechapel, a distance of 6½ miles (10.5km), with eight stations. Closed because it had b...
1 memorial
Harry Beckett
Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett. Trumpeter and flugelhorn player. Born Barbados. Resident in the UK from 1954.
1 memorial
Sir Collins
Also known as Clancy Collins and Charles Constantine Collins. Sound system owner and producer. He ran a sounds system and record stall in Petticoat Lane market in London selling ska and blue beat ...
1 memorial
Tony Williams
British reggae radio/club DJ, producer, awards creator. Information from Discogs. The name is too common to be sure but we think we have the correct identification.
1 memorial
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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Died on this day
Rose Mary Crawshay
Died: 2/6/1907, 116 years ago
Person, Education, Gender Issues, Philanthropy
1 memorial
Puzzle-corner
FCO - D unknown
The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...