Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, which paved the way for its abolition.
City of Westminster
W1, Riding House Street, 67-73
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Olaudah Equiano - Riding House Street
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in ...
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Olaudah Equiano - Riding House Street
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Loughton is a London Underground station on the Central line, and is a Grade II listed building.
The church, St Peter's, is out of shot, over to the left. From Wikipedia's St Peter's Bethnal Green page: "Built as a commissioners' chu...
Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874 - 1880, worked in this building, 1821 - 1824. The Corporation of the City of London
Thomas Crapper, 1837 - 1910, engineer, developer of the controlled flow cistern lived here. The London Borough of Bromley
IanVisits posted about this gate and included a map showing where the Bridewell used to be.
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