Responsible for managing London's infrastructure, such as roads, sewage, etc. Replaced by the London County Council.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Metropolitan Board of Works
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Great Eastern Street fountain
Pink and grey polished granite, sandstone capital and a ball finial in the fo...
Northern Outfall Sewer - Dace Road
Northern Outfall Sewer, part of London's main drainage system, constructed mi...
Northern Outfall Sewer - River Lea
Metropolitan Board of Works Northern Outfall Sewer Constructed 1862 - 63 John...
Putney New Bridge
So the churchyard must have occupied the ground between the church and the ri...
Other Subjects
Sir Denis Truscott, Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London in 1957
1 memorial
Charles Christmas Piper
A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Baths and Wash-houses. 1889 co- churchwarden of St John the Evangelist, Westminster. Charles Christmas Piper was born in New Alresford, Hampshire, t...
2 memorials
Herbert Gladstone
Gladstone was born in Downing Street, the youngest son of William, who was Chancellor at the time. Home Secretary for 5 years and then Governor-General of South Africa for another 5. Died at his ho...
1 memorial
Stewart D. Headlam
Stewart Duckworth Headlam was born on 12 January 1847 in Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancashire, the fourth of the five children of Thomas Duckworth Headlam (1806-1885) and Latitia Headlam née Simpson (1...
1 memorial
John Robinson
Past Prime Warden of The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers and son of Dennis Robinson.
0 memorials
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St Paul's dome - recast
EC4, Cannon Street, St Paul's Cathedral
These plaques were generously photographed for us, at great risk of life and limb, by Matt Brown of Londonist on a privileged visit to th...
15 subjects commemorated
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, father of the theory of evolution and natural selection. Born at Shrewsbury. Grandfathers: Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood. Independently wealthy. Once he returned from th...
7 memorials
James Elroy Flecker
SE13, Gilmore Road, 9
Greater London Council James Elroy Flecker, 1884-1915, poet and dramatist was born here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Henry Raikes keystone
EC1, St Martin's le Grand, Nomura House
Raikes was the Postmaster General who commissioned this building for the General Post Office. This portrait keystone was brought to our a...
1 subject commemorated
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