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Roman boat - Guys Cancer Centre

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Tea trade - St Katharine Docks

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London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Quay, the WT...

Charlotte Despard

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This building has been the Battersea Labour Party HQ since 1923. We thank Alan Patient for providing the photographs.

Jonathan Tyers

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The plaque can be seen in our photo, over to the right, buried in the hedge.

Electricity Committee

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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 the World as...

Angels' Wings - Fred Kormis sculpture

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On our visit the planting around this sculpture was so luxuriant that it was not easy to examine the sculpture nor to photograph it.

King's Cross Cinema - rock concerts

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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 Iggy Pop t...

Wallace drinking fountain

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Built in 1776 this was the townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. Originally known as Manchester House, it was let 1836-51 as the...

Little Dorrrit gate

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Peabody Estate

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