Thames Tunnel Mill
This is a listed mid 19th century former mill building and warehouse. It is one of the earliest warehouse residential conversions in Docklands.
{The image at the top is the London Docklands Development Corporation logo:}
SE16, Rotherhithe Street, Thames Tunnel Mills
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thames Tunnel Mill
London's docks were badly damaged by bombing during WW2, but managed a resurg...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thames Tunnel Mill
We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey...
We've not seen the plaque but the V&A's description confirms that it looks just like this Charles Dickens' one. Erected April-May 1876.
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
We are familiar with the "pensioner crosses road" syndrome in local newspapers but this is our first sighting of it in a plaque.
The 3 VC plaques are laid in the ground, in front of the war memorial, to the west. Reading left to right: Johnson, Cather, Fleming-Sande...
This building now occupies the site of Lewis's wartime family home.
Born as Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, at White Lodge in Richmond Park. Known to friends and family as David. Reigned 20 January - 10 December 1936 when he abdicated in favo...
Sculptor. Born Francis Leggatt Chantry at Jordanthorpe, near Norton, Derbyshire. Sculpted busts and statues of many famous people of the time. Left the Chantrey Bequest (or Chantrey Fund) for purch...
For some more of his work in London see the ever excellent Ornamental Passions.
Because this storm hit during the day-time it caused more human casualties than the Great Storm of 1987. Then the death toll was 22, compared with 47 on Burns' Day. Under other names (e.g. Daria) t...
Architectural sculptor, wood carver, modeller, metalwork designer, medallist. Born Glasgow. Worked as an architectural sculptor in Glasgow before 1901, then moved to London to study at the Royal A...
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