London County Council
Site of the business premises of Thomas Earnshaw, 1749 - 1829, noted watch and chronometer maker.
Site: Thomas Earnshaw (1 memorial)
WC1, High Holborn, 119
London County Council
Site of the business premises of Thomas Earnshaw, 1749 - 1829, noted watch and chronometer maker.
WC1, High Holborn, 119
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Earnshaw
Born Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire. Maker of watches and chronometers. Lived ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas Earnshaw
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Jane stayed here with her brother, Henry, and while in London visited the exhibition of Sir Joshua Reynolds' paintings at the British Ins...
We've moaned about this before and no doubt will do so again. There should be a rule that no plaque can be erected unless it explains why...
Field Marshal Viscount Gort VC, 1886 - 1946, Commander in Chief at Dunkirk, lived here, 1920 - 1926. English Heritage
We think this was unveiled in Oct 2015.
This plaque is actually composed of two stones.
The designer of the building clearly had the 'citadel' concept in mind. Strangely, some of these foundation plaques have had their inscri...
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
The plaque spells Thomson without a 'p' and, given the Hugh Gyle-Thompson that our researches found, we think the plaque is in error.
In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met using the title of th...
Designed by John Penfold. They are distinguished by their hexagonal shape, with an acanthus bud on top. The originals were made by Cochrane & Co of Dudley, Worcestershire, and later replicas by...
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