Erection date: /4/1941
L. & Co
1726
EC1, Saffron Hill, 32-38
We discovered early in our researches that these were the premises of Longman's ship binding works. We then tried and failed to learn the purpose of this strange activity "ship binding". Only when we researched Longmans did we understand. Capitalisation and vocal stress can convey very important information.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Longman's Ship Binding Works
Thomas Longman (1699-1755) through an inheritance acquired a publishing house...
Londonist gives a deliciously grim description of the process of being hung, drawn and quartered. This plaque gives a contemporary view ...
Sources give no. 20 as her address so we guess the street has been renumbered since then.
London County Council William Pitt the younger, 1759 - 1806, lived here, 1803 - 1804.
Kenny Sansom, born 1958. Arsenal and England footballer 1979 - 1988, played full back position, capped 89 times. Lived on the Brandon Est...
Unveiled by Griff Rhys Jones, who claims not to actually be Welsh despite his name and having been born there.
Playwright and novelist. Born Kirriemuir, Scotland. Moved to London, Bloomsbury, in 1885 for his writing career. Less than 5 foot tall he was not very successful with women and developed a habit of...
As far as we know (and we have walked the full length) this is the only such plaque on the New River. Finsbury Park was created in 1869 ...
This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...
Unveiled on the same day as the Nissel plaque. We learnt something typing this plaque - the correct spelling of "ophthalmologist". The m...
Banker, philanthropist, M.P. Set up the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Not to be confused with his father, banker and philanthropist, Samuel Gurney Snr, whose sister ...
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