Glovers' Hall

Glovers' Hall

EC2, Barbican - Cromwell Highwalk

Not the easiest plaque to find: head for the Cromwell Highwalk, and then for Cromwell Tower - that's the building with the concrete balco...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Osbert Lancaster

Osbert Lancaster

W11, Elgin Crescent, 79

Sir Osbert Lancaster, 1908 - 1986, cartoonist and writer, was born here. English Heritage

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Gladys Mills

Gladys Mills

IG10, Barncroft Close, 43

Gladys Mills, 1918 - 1978, pianist lived here. Loughton Town Council 2008

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The Waterloo Way - St James's

The Waterloo Way - St James's

SW1, St James's Square, 16

This building has been occupied by the East India Club since 1850, and 2018, still is. From British History Online: 1804 the Boehms boug...

12 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
The Waterloo Way - Grosvenor Square

The Waterloo Way - Grosvenor Square

W1, Grosvenor Square, 44, Millennium Hotel

This is a small plaque, rather cheap-looking, in contrast to the substantial well-polished brass plaque on the other side of the lobby in...

9 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Winifred Darch

Winifred Darch

IG10, Alderton Hill, Roding Valley High School

This building was the County High School for Girls opened in 1908. The children's author Winifred Darch (1884 - 1960) was a teacher here....

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Sir Mansfield Cumming

Sir Mansfield Cumming

SW1, Whitehall Court, 2

English Heritage write: "At various times between 1911 and 1922, flats 53 and 54 - on the building's seventh floor - served not just as C...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Dr. A. Gordon Signy

Dr. A. Gordon Signy

N1, Alwyne Road, 23

Dr A Gordon Signy, 1905 - 1972, pioneering pathologist & international fencer, lived here 1955 - 1972. London Borough of Islington Is...

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Michele Latour

Michele Latour

N7, Manor Gardens, Royal Northern Gardens

Initially the only information we had about this poignant memorial came from Islington's Management Plan for the garden (2017 'page not f...

1 subject commemorated
Sir Jacob Epstein - Loughton

Sir Jacob Epstein - Loughton

IG10, Baldwin's Hill, 50, Deerhurst

Local London carries a post about Epstein in Loughton: The local historian Georgina Green wrote: "I interviewed Cliff Ambrose in 1984 (wh...

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