George Lansbury - plaque
E3, Bow Road, 39
Lansbury's house was destroyed by bombs only a few months after he died. We're sure Tower Hamlets had a good reason for creating a new pl...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
George Lansbury - stone
E3, Bow Road, 39
Lansbury's house was destroyed by bombs only a few months after he died. We're sure Tower Hamlets had a good reason for creating a new pl...
1 subject commemorated
King's Wardrobe
EC4, Wardrobe Place, 5
This must be the most surreal street in London. It has pavements and kerbs, and a cobbled road-way. So far, so good, but the pavement is ...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Andrew Young
WC2, Strand, Bush House
Andrew Behan directed us to Coletti where we discovered that the plaque was "designed by Eric Bradbury and unveiled by Herbert Hunter JP,...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Gunpowder Plot
N1, Hoxton Street
Monteagle was at dinner when he received the letter so he passed it to a servant to read aloud. This servant was closely connected to one...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Gloucester Place
W1, Gloucester Place, 99
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) - poet - lived here. L.C.C.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Thomas Chatterton - first
EC1, Brooke Street
2022: Timothy Fox drew our attention to the fact that this building and the plaque have gone (demolished 2018). Yet another spreadsheet t...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Tobias Smollett & Chelsea China
SW3, Lawrence Street, 16
Chelsea china was manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street, 1745-1784. Tobias Smollett, novelist, also lived in part o...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Rossetti & Swinburne
SW3, Cheyne Walk, 16
Rossetti kept a menagerie in his back garden, much to the annoyance of his neighbours. It included a bull, a white peacock, a kangaroo, a...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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