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
19 memorials
Ghost bike
29 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
24 memorials
Monument
317 memorials
Mural
86 memorials
Latest Memorials
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Limehouse Library
E14, Commercial Road, 638
A Grade II Listed building, the Limehouse District Public Library opened in November 1901 and closed in 2003. It has since been redevelop...
12 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Damon Albarn
E11, Fillebrook Road, 21
Born Whitechapel, Albarn lived here until he was aged 9. He unveiled his own plaque and the local Guardian quoted him: "I remember cows c...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Joseph Grimaldi grave for dancing on
N1, Pentonville Road
Left - right: Dibdin - Grimaldi. 2018: we could not get the graves to produce any music but having now seen this Londonist video we need...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Charles Dibdin grave for dancing on
N1, Pentonville Road
Left - right: Dibdin - Grimaldi. 2018: we could not get the graves to produce any music but having now seen this Londonist video we need...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Park Royal station
W5, Western Avenue
Oh, dear, both the architect's names are misspelt on this plaque.
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Latest Subjects
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Gorillaz
Virtual rock band. Created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. The 'group' consists of four animated members called: 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs. Their music is provided primarily by...
1 memorial
Blur
Rock band. The group originally comprised Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree, and were central to the so-called 'Britpop' music genre. They broke up in 2003 and reformed in 2008.
1 memorial
Damon Albarn
Musician, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. Born Whitechapel, son of artist Keith Albarn (1939 - ). Co-founder of the band Blur and the virtual group Gorillaz.
1 memorial
Charles Dibdin
Dramatist, composer, writer and theatre proprietor. Employed Grimaldi at Sadler's Wells. Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin was known professionally as Charles Pitt or Charles Dibdin the younger. Born in R...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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Died on this day
Raymond Chandler
Died: 26/3/1959, 64 years ago
Person, Literature, Canada, France, USA
1 memorial
Puzzle-corner
C. F. K.
Could this be? No, surely not. Could it be.... Charles Foster Kane?Funded the erection of a water trough shortly after 1901.
1 memorial