Martin van Buren, 1782 - 1862, eighth US President, lived here.
Greater London Council
W1, Stratford Place, 7
Ornamental Passions have a good post about the grand mansion at the end of this 1770s development.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Martin van Buren
Eighth US President. Born in Kinderhook, N.Y., USA. For a list of all the US...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Martin van Buren
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
We can find no maker, nor date for the erection of this memorial, but its position (outside and to the left of the loggia), the quality o...
Borough Tube Station This was a station of the City and South London Railway that opened in 1890. The line was the world's first undergro...
Sir Peter Medawar, 1915 - 1987, pioneer of transplantation immunology, lived here. English Heritage
Poet, novelist and short story writer. Born Massachusetts. Came to England and met Ted Hughes at a celebration for a poetry magazine in Cambridge. Married him on 16 June 1956 at St George the Marty...
We must have walked through this arch many times without properly seeing it. We thank Geoff Marshall of Londonist for enlightening us in...
Singer. Born Johanna Maria Lind at 40 Mästersamuelsgränd, Stockholm. Her operatic fame began when she sang the role of Agathe in Der Freischütz. She was appointed court singer and made a member of ...
Born Australia. Served in WW2 initially as a sapper and then as a war artist.
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