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
141 memorials
Gates
21 memorials
Ghost bike
31 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
27 memorials
Monument
323 memorials
Mural
91 memorials
Latest Memorials
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Roman boat - Guys Cancer Centre
SE1, Great Maze Pond, Guy's Cancer Centre
A boat or a particularly vicious knuckle-duster? We have assumed that the Boat was erected/unveiled on the day that the building was ope...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Tea trade - St Katharine Docks
E1, St Katharine Docks, Commodity Quay
London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Qu...
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Commodity Quay
E1, St Katharine Docks, Commodity Quay
London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Qu...
1 subject commemorated
Charlotte Despard
SW11, 177 Lavender Hill, 177, Battersea Labour Party HQ
From Penelope J. Corfield: this was unveiled "exactly one hundred years after the date when she stood as the Labour Party candidate in No...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Jonathan Tyers
SE1, Tyers Gate
The plaque can be seen in our photo, over to the right, buried in the hedge.
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Latest Subjects
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Roman boat
In 1958-60 a Roman boat was discovered in what is now almost five metres under the Guy's Cancer Centre. It is 15 metres long and is believed to have sunk, AD 190 - 225, in what is now known as the ...
1 memorial
Daniel Silver
London-based sculptor. Born London, raised in Jerusalem.
1 memorial
1 memorial
World Trade Centre, London - St Katherine Docks
The phrase on the plaque "World Trade Centre, London" is new to us, so we investigated. A World Trade Center (also World Trade Centre or WTC) is a building or complex of buildings used for the pro...
1 memorial
Leathermarket JMB
Leathemarket JMB is Southwark’s largest resident-managed housing organisation. managing 1500 homes in Borough and Bermondsey between London Bridge and Tower Bridge.
1 memorial
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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Died on this day
Bob Hope
Died: 27/7/2003, 21 years ago
Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio, USA
1 memorial
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