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Windrush Hackney statue

E8

HMS Albion disaster

E13

We were asked to stop taking photos here because it was an 'invasion of privacy'. This has never before happened to us in cemeteries and seems very...

Makram Ali

N4

In this little garden Makram Ali used to play with his grandchildren. It is not publicly accessible but, as we arrived, a resident was leaving the ...

Barry Evans

NW3

Salter vault

SE1

This area is covered by the Goad Fire Insurance Plan of London Vol. VII: sheet 154. But the normally reliable Old Maps Online is not currently prov...

Dr Salter Children's Playground - Coxson Place

SE1

In 2010 London SE1 reported that Thames Water had plans to take over this playground as a work site for the construction of the new 'super sewer' u...

The El-Wahabi orchard

W11

In the grounds of a very well protected school, this is not a memorial designed to be photographed.  5 young fruit trees can be seen in the grass b...

Hatch End Station

HA5

Dalston Methodist Church

E8

2020: This building is looking rather unloved but it has some nice detailing: the entrance porch and the tiled cross on the steeple.

Thomas Chatterton - second

EC1

See the first positioning of this plaque. In both manifestations the plaque is placed unusually and unnecessarily high, about 14 feet up.  This mak...