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
135 memorials
Gates
20 memorials
Ghost bike
29 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
26 memorials
Monument
319 memorials
Mural
90 memorials
Latest Memorials
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Edmund Payne
NW11, West Heath Avenue, 16
Edmund Payne (1863 - 1914) actor & comedian, lived here. The Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Lopping Hall - licensed
IG10, Station Road, Lopping Hall
Initially we thought this inscription referred to the 1878 Epping Forest Act of Parliament but then we came across another community buil...
3 subjects commemorated
Lopping Hall - foundation stone
IG10, Station Road, Lopping Hall
The erection of Lopping Hall, a community building, was funded by the City of London as compensation for the loss of lopping rights. See ...
9 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Lopping Hall - High Road
IG10, High Road, 189
Lopping Hall stretches between the High Street and Station Road, where there is a foundation stone. See there for more information about ...
1 creator
West Hackney National Schools
N16, Evering Road, 9a
We weren't expecting the investigation into this plaque to turn up anything particularly interesting but go to the page for vicar Birch a...
2 subjects commemorated
Latest Subjects
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Edmund Payne
Actor, comedian and singer. Born in Hackney. He used his short stature and malleable features to create a popular comic persona. On stage he was often partnered by George Grossmith junior. See ther...
1 memorial
Act of Parliament - 1751-2 - licensing
"Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament of the Twenty fifth of King George the Second." This is a form of words that we have found at three 19th century places of entertainment, two physically and...
1 memorial
Samuel Lloyd Howard, DL, JP
1883, Trustee of Lopping Hall, Loughton. Born Tottenham. Died Menton, France. From "Photographic pedigree of the descendants of Isaac and Rachel Wilson" (1912) via Flickr: "Samuel Lloyd Howard, of...
1 memorial
Sir Henry Knight
Henry Edmund Knight was born in St Marylebone. 1882-3 the Lord Mayor of London. Sources: Wikitree, Grogono.
1 memorial
Rev. Thomas Hugo
British antiquary and collector. Curate at St Botolph without Bishopsgate 1851-8. Rector at St Pauls West Hackney 1872. Member the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Linnean Society and the Roy...
1 memorial
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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Puzzle-corner
Caxton Hall - head 5 - unidentified
The foundation stone is low down at the right hand side of the building. Above each of the two statues is a bust, both of the Greek god v...