Watch-house, erected 1791, destroyed 1941, rebuilt 1962.
Site: Charles Lamb - Giltspur Street (2 memorials)
EC1, Giltspur Street, 10
Watch-house, erected 1791, destroyed 1941, rebuilt 1962.
EC1, Giltspur Street, 10
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Watch-house in Giltspur Street
A watch house was an early form of local police station but we've heard it sa...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Watch-house in Giltspur Street
Ornamental Passions have a good post on this memorial, saying that Lamb is sh...
The plaque is in the entrance porch of the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College. John Oakley tells a great story of how the Queen...
It would be nice to know who did the giving but we can't find out.
Thomas Park F.S.A. "The poetical antiquary", born 1759, died 1834, and his son, John James Park, author of the first History of Hampstead...
English Heritage Vivien Leigh, 1913-1967, actress, lived here.
The 5 piers on the City Road boundary each carry a golden inscription. We list them here south to north. There is a common misapprehens...
Clothing manufacturer and retailer. Montague Burton (1885 - 1952) was raised as Meshe David Osinsky,and emigrated from what is now Lithuania to England in 1900. He set up a business making and sell...
Artist active in 2020 with a number of long-running projects, and involved in a number of campaigns. She is a long-time campaigner against the death penalty and communicated with Herman Wallace for...
Political activist and writer. Born in what is now Lithuania. Emigrated to US 1885. Lover and life-long friend of Alexander Berkman. Imprisoned and then deported from the US. Moved to London in 192...
Founded in early June 1841 at a meeting at the Edinburgh Castle public house in the Strand, attended by Henry Mayhew, brewery manager Mark Lemon, and engraver Ebenezer Landells. The first issue wa...
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