Erection date: 2017
PC Alfred Smith, 1880 - 1917, was killed at this site saving factory workers during a WW1 air raid, 13 June 1917.
London Borough of Islington - Islington People's Plaque
EC1, Central Street, 43-45
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
From Islington Tribune: "PC Smith heard the German Gotha G.V aircraft approac...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
1907 was the year that a regular transatlantic radio-telegraph service begun and the year that Marconi was recognised with a Nobel Prize....
English Heritage Sir Henry Wellcome, 1853 - 1936, pharmacist, founder of the Wellcome Trust and Foundation lived here.
Lt-Cdr Roy S. Kerridge, 1903 - 1940, who died attempting to defuse a parachute mine on this site. London Borough of Islington
As far as we can discover this location has no connection with Baird, other than its (not great) proximity to Alexandra Palace where the ...
There is an identical plaque on the other side of the street, immediately opposite. See there for more information.
London borough formed by the London Government Act of 1963. The constituent parts were almost all of the Municipal Borough of Barking and the greater part of the Municipal Borough of Dagenham.
Secretary and vice-president of the Old Greys' Association and pupil at the Grey Coat Hospital, 1933 - 1940. We take Gibbs to be her maiden name.
Pastor and philatelist. He had been a collector of stamps for most of his life, but his collections and library were lost when his house was looted by members of the occupying Russian army. His col...
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