Edgar Allan Poe - N16  - Bust
6 Burlington Gardens - Bacon
Akis Kollaros
Harrods bombing - upper plaque
Treatment Rooms 2 - Thomas Jefferson
Queen Adelaide's Dispensary
Barbara Pym
Chaplin - Lambeth Walk

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

371 memorials

Fountain

Fountain

148 memorials

Gates

Gates

21 memorials

Ghost bike

Ghost bike

32 memorials

Ghost building

Ghost building

9 memorials

Keystone

Keystone

27 memorials

Monument

Monument

340 memorials

Mural

Mural

100 memorials

Latest Memorials

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Church Street pavement plaque - 1940 - WW2

Church Street pavement plaque - 1940 - WW2

NW8, Salisbury Street, Morris House

Layers of London's map confirms the extent of the bomb damage.

1 subject commemorated
Nightengale Street Buildings

Nightengale Street Buildings

NW8, Salisbury Street, Morris House

Nightingale Street Buildings are marked on this 1939 map having what seems to be exactly the same footprint as the existing 2 rows of red...

1 subject commemorated
Church Street pavement plaque - 1855 - shops

Church Street pavement plaque - 1855 - shops

NW8, Salisbury Street, Morris House

The eleven pavement plaques can be seen randomly distributed over this paved area. The Nightingale Street Buildings plaque can just be se...

2 subjects commemorated
Church Street pavement plaque - 1812 - Canal

Church Street pavement plaque - 1812 - Canal

NW8, Salisbury Street, Morris House

The eleven pavement plaques can be seen randomly distributed over this paved area. The Nightingale Street Buildings plaque can just be se...

1 subject commemorated
Church Street pavement plaque - 1960 - school

Church Street pavement plaque - 1960 - school

NW8, Salisbury Street, Morris House

The eleven pavement plaques can be seen randomly distributed over this paved area. The Nightingale Street Buildings plaque can just be se...

1 subject commemorated

Latest Subjects

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William Henry Berkeley, Viscount Portman

William Henry Berkeley, Viscount Portman

Lord William Henry Berkeley Portman, 2nd Viscount Portman, of the Portman family. Seems he did not use 'William' but went by 'Henry'. He had 6 sons but they must have been less successful at produ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Alfies Antique Market

Alfies Antique Market

Bennie Gray bought Jordan's department store and founded Alfie's Antique Market, naming it after his father. Alfies Antiques gives the size as 30,000 sq.ft.  The 2016 photo shows that today's (202...

Place, Commerce

1 memorial
Bell Street School / Rutherford School

Bell Street School / Rutherford School

From Local History: 1870 "The newly formed London School Board was searching actively for sites, so a block of dilapidated houses in Lisson Street, next to an existing Ragged School, must have been...

Building, Education

1 memorial
St Mary on Paddington Green

St Mary on Paddington Green

From Know Your London: "The first parish church existed as a chapel before 1222. It was dedicated to St Catherine and stood on the same site. In 1678 the second parish church of Paddington was buil...

Building, Religion

1 memorial
Portman Market

Portman Market

From UCL "{J. T.} Parkinson ... designed the new part-covered Portman Market for hay, fruit, vegetables, meat, and also pigs, erected in 1829–30 in Church Street off Edgware Road. Run by the agent ...

Place, Commerce

1 memorial

Seriously Famous

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Edward Lear
Sir Ian Mckellen
Michael Caine
H. G. Wells
Felix Mendelssohn
William Morris (designer)

Lost and Relocated Memorials

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Edmond Lord Sheffield
Columbia Dwellings clock tower
Barber Beaumont tomb
George Jeffreys
Plaque to Milton erected by Bentham
Streatham Bus Garage - WW1 plaque

Erected on this day

Free French plaque

Erected: 15/6/1957, 68 years ago

Plaque

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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
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