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 ...
Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association Anthony Green, R.A., artist, lived here from 1939 to 1990. Awards for all.
In 1903-10 the Savoy Hotel was built by Colcutt and Macmurdo. The magnificently Art Deco Savoy Theatre is in the western section. The sho...
Johann Strauss 1st, 1804 to 1849, father of the Waltz dynasty and composer of the 'Radetzky March' lodged here (formerly Hotel du Commerc...
The plaque is located further into the market, above the entrance to the Green Market section.
While plotting this pin we noticed that Waterloo Road is one of 6 roughly parallel roads between Green Street and Katherine Street, all b...
A minister in the Moravian church and the Aldersgate bookseller of John Wesley's Journal. He convened the meeting at which John Wesley's second conversion took place.
Also known as "Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes". The purposes of the Trustees are commemoration of the Aldersgate Conversion of John and Charles Wesley in May 1738.
The main character of William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair. A cynical, but delightful, social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men.
The plaque is on a small plinth in the front garden. It replaces the one which was erected in 1909 on a house that was subsequently demol...
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