Christ Church Spitalfields - fire

Christ Church Spitalfields - fire

E1, Commercial Street, Christ Church Spitalfields - porch

Did they point out that the fire happened on Ash Wednesday because they saw the humour? And "a very inconsiderable outlay" is not how we...

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Victoria's Golden Jubilee - Tower Bridge

Victoria's Golden Jubilee - Tower Bridge

E1, Riverside walk

Although it doesn't specifically say, this is the foundation stone for Tower Bridge.

8 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Bow Railway Station

Bow Railway Station

E3, Bow Road, 145b, Enterprise Rent-A-Car

The lost Bryant & May testimonial fountain was on the pavement in front of this station.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Marshalsea 6 - stone - John Dickens

Marshalsea 6 - stone - John Dickens

SE1, Borough High Street, Angel Alley

We've put the pin for these 6 plaques at the entrance to the alleyway but they are actually laid into the ground, distributed along the a...

2 subjects commemorated
Charles Dickens - Museum / Devonshire Terrace

Charles Dickens - Museum / Devonshire Terrace

WC1, Doughty Street, Dickens Museum

LookandLearn has a photo of the building, no.1, before it was demolished. The Dickens relief also commemorates his stay at this address.

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Charles Dickens - Museum / Johnson Street

Charles Dickens - Museum / Johnson Street

WC1, Doughty Street, Dickens Museum

Johnson Street is now Cranleigh Street, where there is a plaque for Dickens.

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Carol Paula Chapman

Carol Paula Chapman

WC1, Doughty Street, Dickens Museum

All these memorials are in the back garden of the museum which is a tight space and, much as we'd like to, it's impossible to provide a p...

2 subjects commemorated
Harry Cole

Harry Cole

SE1, Lant Street, Charles Dickens Primary School

The building has some other, architectural, plaques which read: School Board for London Lant Street School 1877 SLB Lant St. School enlar...

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Charles Dickens - SE1

Charles Dickens - SE1

SE1, Lant Street, Charles Dickens Primary School

In 1824, aged 12, Dickens lodged in Lant Street in a house belonging to the Vestry Clerk of St George's Church - we take this to mean St ...

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Wilfred Day

Wilfred Day

W1, Lisle Street, See Woo Supermarket

Wilfred Ernest Lytton Day, FRPS, FRSA, 1873 - 1936, cinema historian, founder of the Will Day Cinematography Collection & of the Anim...

2 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
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