Guildhall School of Music - Arne
Imperial Hotel - statue 01 - Cromwell
Yard Office
London hop trade war memorial
Marc Bolan shrine - tree
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
W. G. Grace - SE9
General Gordon on a camel

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

Bust

Bust

352 memorials

Fountain

Fountain

142 memorials

Gates

Gates

21 memorials

Ghost bike

Ghost bike

32 memorials

Ghost building

Ghost building

9 memorials

Keystone

Keystone

27 memorials

Monument

Monument

323 memorials

Mural

Mural

93 memorials

Latest Memorials

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Ashleigh and India Houses

Ashleigh and India Houses

CR0, Addiscombe Road, 137 - 139

Ashleigh & India Houses, 1848. Houses for professors of the East India Company's Military Seminary. Croydon's Heritage

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Sir Bernard Katz

Sir Bernard Katz

WC1, Gordon Street, Bernard Katz building

The plaque is to the right of the entrance.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Canon Mortlock

Canon Mortlock

EC2, Foster Lane, church courtyard

Ipernity informs that this was set up as a memorial of Canon Mortlock, a head carved in 1936, long before his death in 1967, by Epstein.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Brick of cuneiform writing

Brick of cuneiform writing

EC2, Foster Lane, church courtyard

From Exploring London: "... a stone (actually baked brick) upon which is inscribed cuneiform writing. ... which comes from a Zigurrat in ...

1 creator
Roman pavement - St Matthews

Roman pavement - St Matthews

EC2, Foster Lane, church courtyard

This church dates from the 12th century. From the church's website: "It has been altered, enlarged and restored many times and probably r...

2 subjects commemorated

Latest Subjects

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East India Company's Military Seminary

East India Company's Military Seminary

The East India Company Military Seminary was a British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey. It opened in 1809 and closed in 1861. Its purpose was to train young officers to serve in the East Ind...

Place, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Sir Bernard Katz

Sir Bernard Katz

Biophysicist and physician. Born in Leipzig. He came to Britain in 1935 and worked at the University College London (UCL). In 1938 he went to study at the Sydney Medical School. He joined the Royal...

Person, Medicine, Science, Australia, Germany

1 memorial
Canon C. B. Mortlock

Canon C. B. Mortlock

Charles Bernard Mortlock was a rector, a canon, a connoisseur of art, architecture and antiques, and a journalist in archaeology. 1929 appointed Archaeological Correspondent for the Daily Telegrap...

Person, History, Religion, Egypt, Iraq, Israel/Palestine

2 memorials
St Matthews Friday Street

St Matthews Friday Street

Friday Street used to extend much further north, meeting Cheapside just to the east of Gutter Lane. At this northern end its route has been approximately followed by the north-south shopping mall t...

Building, Religion

1 memorial
Southgate Village Hall

Southgate Village Hall

We found the Village Hall on this 1897 map. Southgate Green Association has: "... the site of the village hall, which in 1882 housed the early meetings of the Southgate Local Board of Health, pred...

Building, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

Seriously Famous

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Napoleon Bonaparte
Harry Houdini
Robinson Crusoe
Knights Templar
Benjamin Britten

Lost Memorials

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Middlesex Hospital - Broderip Ward
Thomas Cubitt - N16
Lawrence Chubb shelter - lost plaque
Keith Richards - Dartford temporary plaque
Willesden Boer War memorial - lost
Holloway Road bus garage - WW1 memorial - lost

Died on this day

Norman Wisdom

Died: 4/10/2010, 14 years ago

Person, Cinema, Humour

1 memorial
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Puzzle-corner

Duchess of Sutherland and Countess of Cromarty

Active in 1885. Visit the picture source and you will see that Ron Hodgkinson, the owner of the painting, is trying to verify the identification of the sitter. So we are not certain that it is the ...

1 memorial
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