A boat or a particularly vicious knuckle-duster? We have assumed that the Boat was erected/unveiled on the day that the building was ope...
London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Qu...
London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Qu...
From Penelope J. Corfield: this was unveiled "exactly one hundred years after the date when she stood as the Labour Party candidate in No...
The plaque can be seen in our photo, over to the right, buried in the hedge.
In the gables are two substantial relief plaques, on the left: "DWC, 1902", on the right: a coat of arms which we found at Heraldry of th...
Promoter Tony Defries hired King's Cross Cinema, now Scala, for July 14-15, 1972, to put on the successive London debuts of Lou Reed and ...
The plaque explains why this fountain look so familiar to anyone who has walked around Paris. In 1872 Wallace donated 50 drinking fountai...
The quoted text comes at the end of Chapter 13 of 'Little Dorrit' by Charles Dickens, the 'him' being Arthur Clennam. The Victorian Socie...
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