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
323 memorials
Mural
93 memorials
Latest Memorials
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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
WC1, Gordon Street, Bernard Katz building
The plaque is to the right of the entrance.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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
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
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
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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...
1 memorial
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...
2 memorials
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...
1 memorial
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...
1 memorial
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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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