Alice Meynell, 1847 - 1922, poet and essayist, lived here.
London County Council
W2, Palace Court, 47, Spanish Catholic Chaplaincy
The scaffolding next door is the result of a major fire there in January 2013. It is a large property which was/is "under refurbishment" for which read "being practically rebuilt and losing any sense of being an old building, by owners with too much money" but that's just our personal opinion.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alice Meynell
Poet and journalist. Alice Thompson was born in Barnes. Her paternal grandm...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Alice Meynell
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Attlee lived here while he was MP for Walthamstow West.
Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and reformer, 1748 - 1832, lived in a house on this site, 1792 - 1832. City of Westminster University Colleg...
In 2022 Philip Broke told us that the plaque on this house is blue not purple. We revisited and we have added our photo here. The blue pl...
The dates on the plaque differ from those usually given: date of birth varies but date of death is normally given as 26 October 899. We c...
The building with the clock (dated 1853),just uphill from the plaque, is called 'The Old Rectory'.
Architectural partnership. 1899 Charles Holden joined H. Percy Adams' practice and became a partner in 1907. In 1913 Lionel Pearson became a partner. Their designs include 55 Broadway, the headquar...
{Carved in the marble surface at the back:} Erected to the memory of H. Hayhill by his friends in HM Exchequer and Audit Dept. 1882.
Built 1671-7, designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke as a monument to the Great Fire and as a scientific instrument. Each step is ...
One of two killed by the Docklands IRA bomb. They were both workers in the newsagent’s directly opposite the bomb. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man and found the photo: John Alan...
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