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
131 memorials
Gates
20 memorials
Ghost bike
29 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
25 memorials
Monument
317 memorials
Mural
89 memorials
Latest Memorials
view moreManze's Pie and Mash Shop - SE1
SE1, Tower Bridge Road, 87
The plaque is on a shelf inside the shop.
Manze's Pie and Mash Shop - E17
E17, High Street Walthamstow, 76
This building was Grade II Listed in 2013: "L Manze Eel, Pie and Mash Shop on Walthamstow High Street was acquired in 1929 by Luigi Manze...
Post Office Railway
WC1, Phoenix Place, 15 - 20
'Mail Rail' - Post Office Railway, 1927 - 2003, 6½ mile, 2 ft gauge, driverless underground railway, linking postal sorting offices, and ...
Mellow Mix Studios in Hackney
E8, Mare Street, Hackney Picture House
The Hackney Citizen reported that the names on the plaque are all "late African-Caribbean musicians with 'strong ties' to Hackney".
Hackney Central Hall and Library - foundation
E8, Mare Street, Hackney Picture House
The Hackney Central Library was opened in 1908. It shut in the 1990s and in 1999 a new library opened in Town Hall Square, on the other ...
Latest Subjects
view moreManze's pie and mash shops
The Manze family came to Bermondsey from Ravello in Italy. Initially they were ice-merchants, and then ice-cream makers. Michele Manze branched out and opened their first eel, pie and mash shop in ...
Post Office Railway
The Post Office Railway carried post from Paddington Head Sorting office to Eastern Head Sorting Office in Whitechapel, a distance of 6½ miles (10.5km), with eight stations. Closed because it had b...
Harry Beckett
Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett. Trumpeter and flugelhorn player. Born Barbados. Resident in the UK from 1954.
Sir Collins
Also known as Clancy Collins and Charles Constantine Collins. Sound system owner and producer. He ran a sounds system and record stall in Petticoat Lane market in London selling ska and blue beat ...
Tony Williams
British reggae radio/club DJ, producer, awards creator. Information from Discogs. The name is too common to be sure but we think we have the correct identification.
Seriously Famous
view moreLost Memorials
view moreDied on this day
Rose Mary Crawshay
Died: 2/6/1907, 116 years ago
Person, Education, Gender Issues, Philanthropy
Puzzle-corner
FCO - D unknown
The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...