Thomas Crapper
SE20, Thornsett Road, 12
Thomas Crapper, 1837 - 1910, engineer, developer of the controlled flow cistern lived here. The London Borough of Bromley
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Jubilee Gardens - first opening
SE1, Belvedere Road, Jubilee Gardens
We photographed this plaque in 2003 in its original location, along with a Braille panel which does seem to be truly lost.
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Jubilee Gardens - second opening
SE1, Belvedere Road, Jubilee Gardens
We'd given up the original plaque as lost, and had never even seen the second one, until 2022 when Londonist reported on this arrangement...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Holly Park Church
N4, Holly Park, Holly Park Methodist Church
Below two of the ground floor windows, on the stone window surrounds, are carved about 15 sets of initials (including E. K. G.; F. E.; K....
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Nelly Power
N1, Southgate Road, 97
Nelly Power (1854 - 1887) actress & singer, lived here. The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Gable Cottages
SE1, Sudrey Street, Gable Cottages
This plaque is on the central façade of this horseshoe shaped development of houses. Sudrey Street was previously names Little Suffolk St...
1 subject commemorated
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...
2 subjects commemorated,
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,
1 creator
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
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