Toynbee Hall clock
E1, Commercial Street, Toynbee Hall
The top plaque claims the 1965 restoration was in appreciation of "the half century", but of what? We can't find anything relevant to To...
4 subjects commemorated
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Barber Beaumont - vault stone
E1, Mile End Road, The People's Palace Foyer, Queen Mary University of London
Our transcription of this long inscription was aided by the typed Winter 1978 newsletter of the East London History Society "A Tombstone...
5 subjects commemorated
Barber Beaumont - information plaque
E1, Mile End Road, The People's Palace Foyer, Queen Mary University of London
This information plaque is giving the provenance of the immense slab of information about Beaumont to its left.
4 subjects commemorated
Highbury Corner traffic scheme
N7, Highbury Corner
A dull plaque, but the removal of 3 lanes of motor traffic is worth celebrating.
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Doctor Harold Moody - WC1
WC1, Great Russell Street, 111, Central YMCA, St Giles Hotel
2024: Central YMCA sold and will close to members in February 2025.
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Richmond Palace
TW9, Friar's Lane, Queensbury House
{Round plaque:} Upon this site formerly stood the Palace of Richmond, built by Henry VII in 1501. A royal residence first occupied this s...
8 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Harold Abrahams
NW11, Hodford Road, 2, Hodford Lodge
Harold Abrahams, 1899 - 1978, Olympic athlete, lived here. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
John Kemp Starley
E17, Church Hill
This plaque was erected between 2015 and 2018. We think this coincided with the planting of a tree (just outside our photo, to the right)...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Hamish Pettit
W9, Clifton Gardens, 9 + 11
Following the erection of the Pettit plaque we visited in June 2024 to photo that and to take a new photo showing numbers 9 and 11 with t...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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