{On the paper held by the girl:}
These statue's {sic} were decorated on behalf of Johnson Matthey.
1968 painted by A. Wallis
1975 " " "
1988 " " A. Wise
1994 " " P. Poole
EC1, Hatton Garden
Ornamental Passions tells us "A pair of schoolchildren flanked each entrance, as was customary, but one pair was later transferred to St Andrew."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hatton Garden - charity girl
Possibly designed by Wren. Built by Lord Hatton following the loss of St And...
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Hatton Garden - charity girl
2023: Lionel Wright has drawn our attention to an error in this plaque: St A...
This unusual memorial was brought to our attention by the ever fascinating Discovering London where you can read how it came to be.
The 'courage' quote is from a speech Fawcett gave after the death of fellow suffrage campaigner Emily Davison.
The monument, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, celebrates Victorian achievement and Prince Albert's passions and i...
Statue unveiled by the Prince of Wales. The figures of the soldiers were cast from twelve French cannons captured by Wellington's forces ...
We found the following at Discovering Dickens "An 18th-century account of it, from Harrison’s New and Universal History, Description and...
An insurance organisation launched by Barber Beaumont in 1807. Beaumont was the managing director and within 20 years it was the fifth largest fire insurer in Britain. Source: Oxford Dictionary of...
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a ...
From their website: "... started in the 1980’s by a group of local women from Somers Town who had decided that they needed an informal environment in which they could learn more about their health,...
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