Latest Sites

Boundary stone - Lambeth

SE11

We don't always collect boundary stones since they are not really memorials but this one caught our eye and seems to be little known.

George Jeffreys

E1

This lost plaque was located to the side of the pub's entrance. When James II fled the country, Jeffreys stayed in London until the last moment, b...

Hackney Almshouses for Disabled Soldiers & Sailors

E5

Designed by architects Gunton and Gunton and opened in 1923. These alsmhouses consist of a row of six cottages with a pair of semi-detached houses ...

Anne Frank tree - Kingston

KT1

War memorial: Gamages and Benetfink

EC4

The Gamages/Benetfink plaque was brought to our attention by this post at A London Inheritance. In our photo you can see a path leading from the t...

Plaque to Milton erected by Bentham

SW1

This lost plaque was brought to our attention by On London. There we read that the house was lived in by Milton (from 1651) and that it was later o...

John Walter and Milton & Shakespeare busts

SW4

The plaque can just be seen in our photo, to the right of the door. From Times Property: The area was fashionable in 1750, when Walter built his h...

Barnett Lewis

N16

This building now occupies the site of Lewis's wartime family home.

Prisoners of War - St. Martin in the Fields

WC2

This unusual memorial in the north-east corner of the body of the church was brought to our attention in 2023 by Maeve Bowen.

Old Bailey - WW2

EC4

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales is normally called the Old Bailey after the street it's on, which itself stands on the route of tha...