Greater London Council
Sir Hiram Maxim, 1840 - 1916, inventor and engineer designed and manufactured The Maxim Gun in a workshop on these premises.
EC1, Hatton Garden, Kovacs House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Hiram Maxim and his gun
Inventor and engineer. Designed and manufactured The Maxim Gun. Born Sangersv...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Hiram Maxim and his gun
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
The Latin quote is from the Roman poet Horace's Odes and translates roughly as "It is sweet and right to die for your country."
Plaque unveiled by Sir Richard Branson and David Bickers (Bader's son-in-law).
A pleasingly unofficial blue plaque - a rather emphatic layout with the letters practically breaking out the circle.
The plaque is on the east side of the bridge, at about the mid point.
From: British History Online: "Good Shepherd Brit. Opened 1866 for 120 M in Mape St. Ejected by Gt. Eastern Rly. and temp. used two cotta...
The rather odd wording of the plaque is explained by an item in the RSC Historical Group Newsletter, February 2010. As part of National S...
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