Composed upon Westminster Bridge
SW1, Westminster Bridge
W. Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage (P654-5) contains a lovely description of daybreak seem from Westminster Bridge c.1898 which...
2 subjects commemorated
Middlesex Hospital - Broderip Ward - gone
W1, Mortimer Street
The Middlesex Hospital closed and was demolished in 2008. We cannot trace what has happened to any of its memorabilia, but believe that t...
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2 creators
Rowland Hill - NW3 - third erection
NW3, Rowland Hill Street, Pears Building, Royal Free Hospital
For information about where this plaque has been erected before see Rowland Hill - NW3 - second erection (and stop tittering at the back)...
3 subjects commemorated,
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Olaudah Equiano burial
W1, Tottenham Court Road, American International Church
The wall on which the plaque is mounted marks the boundary of the old graveyard.
2 subjects commemorated,
4 creators
Denmark Place arson attack
WC1, Denmark Place, The Outernet
This area has been totally redeveloped and we understand that the developers funded this long overdue plaque. On the day we visited a med...
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Peter Cushing
WD6, Shenley Road, In front of 167
Elstree Film Studios are on this road, immediately east of Tescos. From 1968 Hammer Films shot many of their films there.
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Saifullah Zaman
E6, Waterloo Road, 18
While plotting this pin we noticed that Waterloo Road is one of 6 roughly parallel roads between Green Street and Katherine Street, all b...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Coroner's Court, Westminster - foundation
SW1, Horseferry Road, 65
Thrust into a corner of the facade and hidden by a bay tree this plaque has taken 3 visits to reveal all its lettering. And it is not a p...
5 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Coroner's Court, Westminster - keystone
SW1, Horseferry Road, 65
This delicate monogram can be decoded to represent: St Margaret and St John, Westminster, an early version of Westminster Council.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki - N19
N19, Hornsey Rise, Elthorne Park Noel-Baker Peace Garden
The ideograms are Japanese Kanji characters forming the word Heiwa which is one way of expressing 'peace' in Japanese.
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