Inscription
On this site stood the historic May Fair.
Site: May Fair (1 memorial)
W1, Hertford Street, 7
Nearby Memorials
Sailors Home extension
E1, Dock Street , alley behind the buildings
As we photographed the nearby Cable Street plaque a 'person of the street' approached and told us about another plaque, down a dark alley...
2 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
Black Prince Road ceramics - plaque 10
SE11, Black Prince Road, Tunnel underneath railway bridge
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
2 subjects commemorated,
15 creators
Samuel Palmer fountain - re-opened
NW3, College Crescent
2017: Maybe we are just unlucky but every time we come here this fountain-shelter is lost in amongst the florist's stuff. They are taking...
9 creators
Highgate Branch Library - outside
N19, Chester Road, Highgate Branch Library
The two plaques appear to be back to back; the outside one being the foundation stone and the inside one the opening stone. To the left,...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Tom Baker
W1, Berwick Street, 83-84
"London County Council"? We don't think so. A Sir Tom Baker has a bespoke tailoring business around the corner at 4 D’Arblay Street, wher...
1 subject commemorated
Previously viewed
Alfred Mond, Baron Melchett
Born in Lancashire, where his father Ludwig had a factory. Studied law and then entered his father's business as director. Liberal and then Conservative MP 1906-28. In 1926 he achieved the merger...
1 memorial
Thomas Hardy (radical)
Radical. Born Stirlingshire, Scotland. Came to London in 1774. 1792 co-founded the London Corresponding Society, a group advocating wider suffrage and parliamentary reform. Presecuted for high ...
1 memorial
Sake Dean Mahomed
A Bengali Muslim, he joined the East India Company aged 11, where he served as a solder and fought a few times. Resigned in 1782 and two years later with his friend from the army Captain Godfrey Ev...
1 memorial
Abolition of slavery
The British abolition of slavery came in two parts: first the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act became law on 25 March 1807, which left slavery itself still permitted until the Slavery Abolition Act...
Event, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Africa, Australia, Bermuda, Caribbean Islands, Indian Sub-continent, Jamaica, Sri Lanka
11 memorials
Sir Thomas Docwra
Grand Prior of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, 1501-1527. In 1504 he rebuilt St John's Gate. We guess the Docwra family are descended from Sir Thomas or his family.
1 memorial
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them