On This Day : Page 5 : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London

Subject: Uğur Kaynar

Died 2/7/1993, 32 years ago

37 years old, poet

Person, Tragedy, Turkey

1 memorial

Subject: Asaf Koçak

Died 2/7/1993, 32 years ago

35 years old, cartoonist

Person, Tragedy, Turkey

1 memorial

Memorial: Lloyd's of London war memorial plaque

Erected 2/7/2008, 17 years ago

EC3, Leadenhall Street, 12

This arch was the entrance to Lloyd's 1928 building. 37 feet high, of Portland stone, it was retained and now, rather incongruously, sits...

3 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

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Founded by magistrate Patrick Colquhoun and Master Mariner John Harriott, on the site from which it still operates. Set up to protect the cargo ships from theft which was proving very costly to the...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial

Subject: Matchgirls' strike

Started 2/7/1888, 137 years ago

A strike of the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant and May Factory. Annie Besant had published an article about the poor working conditions at the factory, 'White Slavery in London'. Thi...

Event, Gender Issues, Industry, Social Welfare

5 memorials

Subject: Handan Metin

Died 2/7/1993, 32 years ago

20 years old, artist

Person, Tragedy, Turkey

1 memorial

Subject: Sait Metin

Died 2/7/1993, 32 years ago

23 years old, artist

Person, Tragedy, Turkey

1 memorial

Subject: King Olav V of Norway

Born 2/7/1903, 122 years ago

Born Prince Alexander of Denmark in Sandringham, Norfolk. Parents: Haakon VII (first King of Norway following the dissolution of the union with Sweden) and Maud of Wales (daughter of our Edward VII...

Person, Royalty, Norway

3 memorials