James Joyce
W8, Campden Grove, 28
From English Heritage: "He lived in a flat at 28B {almost certainly the basement} Campden Grove from early May until early September 1931...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Freddy Randall
E4, Old Church Road, 184
Freddy Randall, 1921 - 1999, a trumpet-hero and true legend of British jazz, lived in this house. Waltham Forest Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Last Beatles' concert
W1, Savile Row, 3
Note that that, though blue, this is not an English Heritage plaque. At Beatles in London the 'plaque committee' is given as Richard Port...
1 subject commemorated
Richard Grosvenor fountain
SW1, Pimlico Road
'EMW' are the initials of the Marquess's wife, Elizabeth Mary who died 1891, here to indicate that it was she who erected the memorial to...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Jackie Free
E11, Pearcroft Road, 75
Jackie Free, British jazz trombonist. Born in Leytonstone, lived here between 1932 - 1954 "A fine trombone man" (Louis Armstrong 1956) Wa...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Lambeth Chapel
SE1, Lambeth Road, Lambeth Mission and St Mary
1739 was the year after Wesley's 'Aldersgate experience' and the year in which he formed the Methodist Society in England. It's not the y...
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Warburton property - lunatic asylum
E2, Roman Road
This 1897 OS map shows that Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum occupied the land between this alley and Bethnal Green Gardens. The Warburton fa...
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Archbishop Sumner's Memorial Schools
SE11, Reedworth Street, Archbishop Sumner Primary School
These three men must have been the vicars at St Philips, at the years given.
4 subjects commemorated
Hugh Gaitskell House
N16, Stamford Hill
{The top plaque:} These flats erected for the Stoke Newington Borough Council were opened by Baroness Gaitskell of Egremont on the 9th Ma...
1 subject commemorated,
4 creators
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