Freddie Mercury - lost memorial
TW13, High Street Feltham, The Centre
The memorial was unveiled to great acclaim by Brian May and Mercury's mother Jer Bulsara. By about two years later it had disappeared. On...
1 subject commemorated
Freddie Mercury - High Street Feltham
TW13, High Street Feltham, By a tree outside number 21
This stone is a substitute for the more elaborate memorial that was located on the other side of the road, and subsequently removed. It c...
1 subject commemorated
Freddie Mercury - Gladstone Avenue
TW14, Gladstone Avenue, 22
Plaque unveiled by Mercury's sister and Brian May. We thought it strange that English Heritage decided that his real first name was Fred...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Trinity Green Almshouses
E1, Mile End Road
These alsmshouses are often called Trinity Almshouses which confuses them with the Deptford Trinity Alsmhouses. We have photographed the...
2 subjects commemorated
McDonald's Restaurants
SE18, Powis Street, 56 - 58
In our photo this difficult-to-spot plaque is to the right of the '70% off' sign. 13 November 2024 (50 years after the plaque was unveil...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Free French Naval Forces
SW1, Stafford Place, Stafford Mansions
Thanks go to our French consultant, John Hartley, for the translation. We believe the text comes from a speech made by de Gaulle, after,...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Ewer Street burial ground
SE1, Ewer Street
Current maps show Ewer Street shaped like a T on its side - very unusual. An 1862 map shows an L-shaped Ewer Street (without the northern...
2 subjects commemorated
Ewer Street bomb shelter
SE1, Ewer Street
We found each of these civilian casualties in the CWGC database and the make up is interesting: two children (aged 12 and 16); 12 women; ...
Civilian war dead | WW2
23 subjects commemorated
23 subjects commemorated
Swire war memorial - 1
SW1, Buckingham Gate, 59, Swire House
The names are grouped by brief company identifier, which we’ve recognised as follows: B&S - Butterfield & Swire CN Co - China N...
War dead, Civilian war dead | WW1, WW2
89 subjects commemorated
89 subjects commemorated
Swire war memorial - 2
SW1, Buckingham Gate, 59, Swire House
The names, given on the other plaque, are not Chinese (being Smith, etc.) so by "Chinese members" they must mean something like "working ...
3 subjects commemorated
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