This 1913 map shows that Oswald Street used to extend down to Rushmore Street. That southern section, where, according to the plaque, New...
Cherry Dorothy Groce, 1948 - 2011, innocently shot in this house by police which sparked the 1985 Brixton uprising. A heroine to her chil...
We are grateful to London Footprints for this information: “This was designed in 1905 by R Stephen Ayling for 'ladies engaged in or train...
Eric Ravilious, 1903 - 1942, artist, designer and illustrator, was born and lived here until 1907. Ealing Council Acton History Group Eal...
Crookes had a private laboratory here made possible with the inheritance from his father. At least some of the seances that he investiga...
James D. Watson, DNA scientist, lived here, 1983 - 1992. The Heritage Foundation
An unusually decorative and high quality plaque for such a mundane event. We don't know whether it refers to a restoration of just the me...
Northern Outfall Sewer, part of London's main drainage system, constructed mid 19th century by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, engineer of the Met...
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