{Beneath garlands of hops:}
To the memory of the men of the London Hop Trade who died for us in the Great War
{Followed by 33 names. See Commemorated Subjects for the list:}
Their name liveth forever.
Credit to Researching the Past for the splendid research on the names on this memorial.
SE1, Borough High Street, 32 - 34, a pub (name keeps changing)
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
London hop trade war memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Hops were introduced to England from the Netherlands. They were grown princip...
Private. Number 1538, of the London Regiment, 15th County of London Batallion...
Corporal. Number G/5125 of the 10th Battalion of the Queen's (Royal West Surr...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
London hop trade war memorial
Site of St. Margaret's Church (13th century) and the Borough Compter. Histori...
The bronze statue on the plinth is of an infantryman tramping through mud. Th...
This event took place 7 months after Thatcher's tearful departure from Downing Street.
This WW1 panel was erected in 2013 and is noticeably more modern in style and in better condition than the two WW2 panels flanking it. Ou...
The plaque is on the north-west facade, just outside the entrance door.
The stone was laid only 14 days into her 51st year so we're taking this as a late commemoration of her Golden Jubilee. And the remaining...
Capt Frederick Marryat, 1792 - 1848, novelist, was educated at 'Holmwood' on this site. London Borough of Enfield
Architect. Born, Arthur Beresford Pite, 9 South Terrace, Grosvenor Park, Walworth. London buildings: 30 Euston Square the original building with the Melton Street frontage - HQ of an assurance co...
Chancellor, Archbishop and Martyr. Born Cheapside of French parents. son of Gilbert Becket, mercer. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162 to his death. Assassinated after his erstwhile friend, Henry II, d...
A railway company which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in anticipation of the opening of its London extension. It was eventually grouped in...
Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who worked his way into being an established travelling jeweller by 1867, when he married and came with his wife, Ada, to London...
1569-1570 Master of the Clothworkers' Company. Three wives but childless which allowed for his philanthropy. 1564-1577 he financed the rebuilding of the Holborn Conduit which, until its demolition ...
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