. . . Heroes
. . . . - 1918
R. I. P.
Very sad - a stump of a memorial that is also weathered into illegibility.
Site: Church WWI Memorial (1 memorial)
E8, Kingsland Road
. . . Heroes
. . . . - 1918
R. I. P.
Very sad - a stump of a memorial that is also weathered into illegibility.
E8, Kingsland Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Church WW1 Memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Five of the names were added at a later date to the 1914 - 18 plaque, and one to the 1939 - 45 one. Note that this memorial has no relig...
The 3 guardsmen are cast from captured Russian guns. The guns displayed at the rear are those used at the siege of Sebastopol. This was ...
Shame about the nose. On the platform at the unveiling ceremony Brock was made Knight Commander of the Bath.
The first quote comes from the ancient Greek writer Hermes Trismegistus; the second from Ecclesiastes 44:7. This monument is a good exam...
{On the back of the plinth: a carved laurel wreath encircling a lit lantern, representing an eternal flame, presumably, and:} 1914 - 1...
This 19th century building was converted by the architect John Oliver Brook Hitch MC, into an animal dispensary. It was opened on 10 Nove...
Private day school for young boys at 90 Queen's Gate, run by Orlando Henry Wagner (1867-1956) and his wife Monica. Operating before WW1 but we can't find start and end dates. An old boy, Michael Ma...
First performed at the Blitz Club on 5 December 1979.Wikipedia informs: "'Spandau Ballet' was slang used by Allied troops in the trenches in the First World War referring to the twitching of the co...
Quaker activist and writer. Born near Kendal. Died, unmarried, in Newgate prison and was buried at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.
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