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...
In memory of Bill and Daphne Abbs, formerly chairman and secretary of Webheath Tenants Association for over 30 years, who worked tireless...
Designed by Charles Holden and built 1927 – 1929 as HQ for Underground Electric Railways Company of London, the main forerunner of London...
The Grade 2 Listing entry contains: "Nos 9 and 11 ... Pair of terraced town houses. c1690-1700, the small shop windows inserted in mid C1...
The plaque is located at 13 Pendennis Road, Streatham, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says he was born in Angles Road, w...
Neither of these plaques can be seen in our photo. They are arranged symmetrically low down on either side of the entrance: Cadogan to th...
LCC John Howard, 1726 - 1790, prison reformer lived here.
The church plaque is below the large wooden cross. the twinning plaque, unusually large, is on the wall to the right, below the tree.
Sculptor and poet. Born Hadleigh Suffolk. Early member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Emigrated to Australia 1852-3 for economic reasons. Buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Hendon.
The bomb landed at the junction of Boothby, Giesbach and Grovedale Roads, with residents from the adjacent St John’s Way also suffering in the attack. 35 adults and children died, and 219 were inju...
Rower. Born Buckinghamshire. Won Olympic gold: 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 - this man can row! But what his connection is to Southwark or the South Bank, we can not discover.
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