Erection date: 1995
This cast-iron roundel, showing keys and doorbells, is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Commercial Street, 145, Cloisters
In our photo the plaque is on the section of pavement obscured by the pesky cyclist. This was the first Peabody estate and opened on 29 Feb 1864.
This cast-iron roundel is one of 26 - see Bowler's page for more details.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Keys and Doorbells
Philanthropist. Born Massachusetts, USA, descended from English immigrants to...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Keys and Doorbells
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
The Whitsun Weddings (recalling a train journey on Whitsun Saturday afternoon in 1955) was voted one of the "Nation's Top 100 Poems" in 1...
Adam Faith (Terry Nelhams), 1940 - 2003, singer & actor born in a house on this site, destroyed by a V1 bomb in 1944. Ealing Council ...
Hoxton Hall. Built 1863 as a music hall. Owned since 1893 by Bedford Institute The Society of Friends (Quakers). Community activities ex...
This plaque is on the low boundary wall, facing the pavement. The railings, proudly announced on the plaque, are no more, presumably remo...
We can't explain the quotation marks on the inscription and think they are probably not significant.
Founded to focus attention on the historic environment of the borough and to record, preserve and enhance its historic buildings.
Novelist. Born at 2 Onslow Gardens, Pinner, Middlesex. her early life was marred by the deaths of four of her siblings. Her first novel 'Dolores' was published in 1911. In 1919 she met the writer M...
It looks familiar but we cannot determine the significance of the jigsaw puzzle emblem, nor whether BBC refers to the British Broadcastin...
Bronze. This statue, considered Clarke's best work, belongs to the select group of seated London statues - see Peabody.
Explorer and journalist, born as John Rowlands at Denbigh, Wales. Illegitimate and brought up in a workhouse, he sailed to America as a cabin boy in 1859. He befriended a trader called Henry Hope S...
Person, Exploring, Journalism / Publishing, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Africa, USA, Wales
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