The archaeological remains of these Roman administrative buildings extend under Leadenhall Market and were uncovered during excavations in 1986. The brick pier in our photo is in the basement of 90 Gracechurch Street and can be viewed during shop-opening hours.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Roman basilica and forum
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Roman basilica
{Inscribed in the red marble wall:} On this site stood the Roman basilica c.1...
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Lord Leslie Haden-Guest
Born Oldham. Author, journalist, doctor and member of parliament. Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Boer War, WW1 and WW2, winning a Military Cross. First Jewish Labour Party candidat...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Born Herefordshire. Related via the Boleyn family to Queen Elizabeth I. Married a daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. Became a favourite of the Queen. However he performed badly as Lord Lieuten...
Chris Roberts
Former Labour leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Anne Ambrose
Chair of Tower Hamlets Community Housing in 2007. Director of Tower Hamlets Community Housing Ltd, 1999 - 2014 when she resigned. In 2021 she is listed as a director of Parmiter's Almshouse and Pen...
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Men of the parish (All Saints, Hackney) who fell in WW1
the men of this church and parish who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1919.
Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde
Field Marshal. Born Glasgow as Colin Macliver but his maternal uncle financed his education so he took his surname, Campbell. Rose through the army ranks, fought at the Crimea and as Commander-in-C...
Albert Victor Mortimer
From the parish of St Peter's in Bethnal Green and killed in WW1, a private aged 26.
Gordon Victor Young
Businessman in the fish industry. "Who knew Billingsgate Market well and built up the family business, W. Young & Son." The quote is on the plaque but we can't trace it, or indeed, find out any...
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