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...
We are not confident in the transcription of the first name and initial.
Thomas Attwood, 1765 - 1838, composer and organist at St Paul's Cathedral and the Chapel Royal, lived and died here. Erected by the Wheel...
{On the plaque:} This pump was made by George Turner of Dorset Street, Fleet Street in the 1830's and erected, it is thought, for the res...
Watch-house, erected 1791, destroyed 1941, rebuilt 1962.
Site of Theatre Royal Marylebone, 1832 – 1959, also known as the Royal West London Theatre. Home of the Victorian dramatic & music h...
We first saw this plaque when it was on the building that used to occupy this site. That was from 1990ish but the style of the plaque is ...
Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on Gibbon.
Field Marshal Viscount Gort VC, 1886 - 1946, Commander in Chief at Dunkirk, lived here, 1920 - 1926. English Heritage
The Castle plaque is the lower of the three near the camera. The Cromwell plaque is just visible, one window bay to the left of the woma...
Spenser to the left; Bacon to the right. The frieze announces proudly 'Islington Central Library'. Above the keystone of the porch the da...
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