Crunchy - Grey Eagle Street

Crunchy - Grey Eagle Street

E1, Grey Eagle Street

Look to the roof-line to see Crunchy.  We photographed this in 2020 and, given all the developments in the area (and our backlog) it's qu...

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Penfold pillar box - NW3

Penfold pillar box - NW3

NW3, Hampstead High Street, 23

About this pillar box Victorian web informs: "On 9 January 1914 it was sabotaged by the militant branch of the suffragettes belonging to ...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Gerald Durrell

Gerald Durrell

SE21, Alleyn Park, 43

Gerald Durrell, 1925 - 1995, zoologist and writer, lived here as a child. English Heritage

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Totterdown Estate

Totterdown Estate

SW17, Ruislip Street, 16

Totterdown Estate, built 1901 - 1911, influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement using traditional construction skills. 2010

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Fleet River floods - Purchese Street

Fleet River floods - Purchese Street

NW1, Purchese Street, Purchese Street Open Space

This open space was reduced in size in 2020-22 to allow the construction of a building on the Purchese Street/Brill Place corner.  The re...

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Richard Everitt - stone

Richard Everitt - stone

NW1, Purchese Street, Purchese Street Open Space

This is the plaque that was first erected nearby.

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Fleet River tributary - Mount Pleasant

Fleet River tributary - Mount Pleasant

WC1, Mount Pleasant, Fleet Valley Pocket Park

The plaque's prominent reference to Queen Square is confusing. The map at Dead End Street shows a Fleet tributary near Queen Square but i...

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Fleet River floods - Goldington Crescent

Fleet River floods - Goldington Crescent

NW1, Goldington Crescent Gardens

Not easy to spot, this plaque is laid into the ground, slightly right of centre in our photo.

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Bethnal Green Town Hall

Bethnal Green Town Hall

E2, Cambridge Heath Road

This 1910 Town Hall is by Percy Robinson with W. Alban Jones. Sculpture is by Henry Poole. The 1939 eastern extension is by E. C. P. Monson.

19 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Sir William Russell Flint

Sir William Russell Flint

W8, Peel Street, 80, Peel Cottage

Movement has caused the wall to crack, including the plaque.

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