Street Orderly Boy
W1, Paddington Street Gardens
Marble. "Street Orderly Boy" is an old name for a street cleaner - see Cat's Meat Shop for the job specification. This statue was placed...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
First underground passenger railway - LT plaque
NW1, Marylebone Road
London's roads were heavily congested, the railways stopped on the fringes of the West End so some way of linking the mainline stations: ...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
WW1 plaque in College Lane
NW5, College Lane, 13-14
This plaque is extremely difficult to read, especially at the top. It is also rare, being, as far as one can tell, a private plaque comme...
War dead | WW1
11 subjects commemorated
11 subjects commemorated
Thomas Park & J J Park
NW3, Church Row, 18
Thomas Park F.S.A. "The poetical antiquary", born 1759, died 1834, and his son, John James Park, author of the first History of Hampstead...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
A. E. Housman - N6
N6, North Road, Byron Cottage, 17
Housman lived here 1885-1905 when he moved, with his landlady to 1 Yarborough Villas, Pinner.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Walter Besant - Frognal Gardens
NW3, Frognal Gardens, 18
This house, Frognal End, is described and photographed in 1897, during Besant's tenure, at OOCities. The Underground Map says the house ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
The North Star
NW3, Finchley Road, 104
The North Star, 104 Finchley Road. The North Star was built in 1850 as one of the first buildings to grace the new Finchley Road. This hi...
2 subjects commemorated
Lilian Baylis Tree
EC1, Rosebery Avenue
Aesculus Indica (Indian Horse Chestnut) planted by Hugh Jenkins, MP, Minister for the Arts, on 17th May 1974, in memory of Lilian Baylis ...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
St Nicholas Nursery
WC1, Guilford Street, 6
This nursery was set up and funded by the Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1955 for the use of nursing mothers ...
1 subject commemorated
V&A façade - Millais
SW7, Cromwell Road
The sculptor is elsewhere logged as James Alexander Stevenson but the niche gives "Mirande", as best we can read. 2022: We were contacte...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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