Chingford Mount Cemetery
Developed in 1884 by the Abney Park Cemetery Company on land originally called "Caroline Mount", named after the landowner. The original chapel and gate lodges are now gone but the impressive gates, railings, and gate piers survive.
Waltham Forest Heritage
E4, Old Church Road, 121
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chingford Mount Cemetery
Set up to run the Abney Park cemetery in Stoke Newington (see Abney House and...
Laid out on the site of the house and grounds of Caroline Mount, it was opene...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Chingford Mount Cemetery
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
These two inscriptions are either side of the entrance steps. The patient entrance is now around the corner and this grand entrance seems...
The plaque is dull compared with this relief showing the expectant natives reaching out to the Gospel-bringer in his ship with puffed up ...
From the Imperial College website: The Royal College of Science building was completed in 1906 ….. The building was designed by architect...
London County Council Arnold Bennett, 1867 - 1931, novelist, lived here.
Site of St Leonard’s Church, destroyed in the Great Fire, 1666. The Corporation of the City of London
Manufacturers of ceramic pipes and construction materials, named after the Burmantofts district of Leeds. The business began when fire clay was discovered in a coal mine owned by William Wilcox and...
The Association came into being in the House of Commons. Those involved in setting it up include: Sir George Catlin, Dr Thomas Mann, Dr Adolf Grimme - Minister of Education for Lower Saxony, Sir ...
It was amalgamated under the London Government Act of 1963, with the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
The expression "our glorious dead" suggests that this memorial was raised to the dead in the armed forces only and not to any civilian dead.
Art Deco style purpose-built coach station, the largest in Britain. Opened by London Coastal Coaches, an association of coach operators. Architects were Wallis, Gilbert and Partners. Ian Visits g...
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