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
142 memorials
Gates
21 memorials
Ghost bike
32 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
27 memorials
Monument
338 memorials
Mural
94 memorials
Latest Memorials
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Founders Hall - Cloth Fair, Coade coat of arms
EC1, Bartholomew Passage
The coat of arms is supported by cannons and what must be cannonballs (despite appearing to have finger holes like those used in ten-pin ...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
My Beautiful Laundrette
SW8, Wilcox Road, 11
Although not specified on the plaque, it was erected by Wandsworth LGBTQ+ Forum.
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Valentine Poole Houses - Southgate
N14, The Green, 28
23 - 31 The Green, built 1780 by Valentine Poole Trust for the poor of Barnet. Architect: Michael Searles (1750 - 1813). Saved from dem...
4 subjects commemorated
Queen Adelaide's Dispensary
E2, Pollard Row, 41-45
From Looking at Buildings: This dispensary was "founded in 1849 by the Vicar of St James-the-Less in Bethnal Green. Its foundation follow...
1 subject commemorated
King William IV Asylum
SE20, St John's Road
The plaque is in the pavement towards the right of the frontage of the asylum site.
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Latest Subjects
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Stephen Frears
Film and television director. Born Stephen Arthur Frears in Leicester. His many works include My Beautiful Laundrette, 'Prick up Your Ears' and 'The Queen'. He had worked with The Scaffold early i...
1 memorial
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke, written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears. The story concerns Omar, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion a...
1 memorial
Hanif Kureishi
Novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Born in Bromley, Kent. He started his career as a pornography writer, but progressed to writing plays for several London fringe theatres. His novels include '...
1 memorial
Valentine Poole Trust
A charity founded when Valentine Poole left various properties he owned to the parishioners of Chipping Barnet, where he was born. It now provides relief to the needy and poor. We can find nothing...
1 memorial
King William IV Naval Asylum
Also known as the King William IV Cottages. Commissioned by Queen Adelaide widow of King William IV and designed by Philip Hardwick. They provided housing for twenty destitute widows and families o...
1 memorial
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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Grosvenor Hotel - head 05
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...