Michael Faraday - N7 - M.F.

Michael Faraday - N7 - M.F.

N7, Faraday Close, 7, North Telephone Exchange

This extremely unusual memorial is a brass plate, only 4 or 5 inches across, fixed in the parquet floor at the site of Faraday’s pew when...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Greenwich Market

Greenwich Market

SE10, College Approach, Greenwich Market

{Beneath the coat of arms of Greenwich Hospital:} Greenwich Market. In 1700 Greenwich Hospital received from Henry, Earl of Romney the ri...

3 subjects commemorated
Gordon Pirie

Gordon Pirie

CR5, Brighton Road, 194, Comrades of the Great War Club

Gordon Pirie, 1931 - 1991, South London Harriers and Coulsdon resident, held 5 world records including the 4 x 1500m relay with local ath...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Keib Thomas

Keib Thomas

SE5, Camberwell Road, 64

The plaque is on the wall in Urlwin Street.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
John Humffreys Parry

John Humffreys Parry

N1, Northdown Street, Pollard House

This plaque is smaller than usual and not the expected ceramic. We think it was erected in 2013 and might be a glossy or plasticised pape...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
High Tide - 1874

High Tide - 1874

SE10, High Bridge Wharf, Trinity Hospital

Reading left to right these plaques are: Tide - 1874, Wall - 1817, Tide - 1928. We think the organisation for which the Wardens worked...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Wall - 1817

Wall - 1817

SE10, High Bridge Wharf, Trinity Hospital

Reading left to right these plaques are: Tide - 1874, Wall - 1817, Tide - 1928. We think the organisation for which the Wardens worked...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
High Tide - 1928

High Tide - 1928

SE10, High Bridge Wharf, Trinity Hospital

The 75 ft of wall which collapsed may actually have been in Millbank which is not only a long way away but is on the other side of the ri...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Noor Inayat Khan bust

Noor Inayat Khan bust

WC1, Gordon Square

The Guardian reports: "the first stand-alone memorial to an Asian woman in the UK" and elsewhere we read that it is "one of the few anywh...

War dead | WW2
3 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
East Street Market

East Street Market

SE17, East Street

East Street Market formerly East Lane Market, moved from Walworth Road to its current site in 1880 for the construction of an electric tr...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
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