{On plaque attached to the wooden piling:}
From Roman wharf, AD 75: found Fish Street Hill, 1931.
The piling can just be seen in our picture; it's the dark object on a low stand in the corner.
EC3, Lower Thames Street, St Magnus the Martyr
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Roman wharf - Fish Street Hill
A piling from the Roman river wall found in Fish Street Hill in 1931 is thoug...
Immediately after her death this site was visited by a protest ride of over 1,000 cyclists demonstrating for safer roads. A small shrin...
This bouquet of dried flowers was tied to a tree in the garden not too far away. The writing was illegible or uninformative so we have n...
These mosaics are laid in the pavement in a rather sad, out the way, corner of the South Bank, at street level, near the non-main entranc...
The size of this "wandering hour" clock, a 2 metre diameter, makes it unique. The arms of the Clockmakers company are at the centre of th...
We have found another example of carved bricks: Emma Bowden.
Goon. Born as Terence Alan Milligan near Bombay, India, his father being an Irish soldier who met his wife, Florence Winifred Kettleband, in India. Both parents were amateur, would-be professional,...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Launched to replace the Daily Herald. First printed at Bouverie Streeet, south of Fleet Street. The Sun's website refused to let us have a picture of their logo so we went elsewhere for it. Whic...
Connected to the Salvation Army Citadel, Ronalds Road in 1890. We think it's likely that this lady was wife to the Dr Heywood Smith who was one of the colleagues of W. T. Stead when he was accused...
Sculptor and printmaker. Born in Edinburgh of Italian parents. His father (and we think his maternal grandfather) died on the Arandora Star. A major figure in the development of the pop-art style. ...
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