From the picture source website: "The fire started in consignment of jute stored at Scovell's warehouse at Cotton's Wharf. This was the biggest of all the peacetime fires in the port: it raged for two days and destroyed most of the nearby buildings. It was the greatest test of the new London Fire Engine Establishment. The whole force was mobilised to fight the blaze, including its head, James Braidwood, who was killed when a wall fell on him. It was a full two weeks before the remaining embers were finally doused."
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Great fire of Tooley Street
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Great fire of Tooley Street
2021: This plaque has been replaced with a similar plaque, re-branded to prom...
James Braidwood
What a great plaque. The inscription is inside a laurel wreath, in front of a...
Other Subjects
Lieutenant Charles Pope, VC
Lieutenant Charles Pope, Australian Imperial Force (Western Australia), 15th April 1917. From East London Advertiser: "Pope, a one-time London bobby, was born in Mile End in March, 1883. He emigra...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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Trotter's trough - SW4
SW4, The Pavement
MDFCTA says this was originally erected in 1881 outside The Plough in Clapham, which we think might have been at 156 Clapham High Street,...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Roger William Cork
The 669th Lord Mayor of London 1996-7. Roger William Cork was born on 31 March 1947 in Hatch End, Middlesex (now Greater London), the son of Sir Kenneth Russell Cork (1913-1991) and Nina Cork née ...
Person, Liveries & Guilds, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration
2 memorials
Harold Wilson clock
W4, The Avenue, St Michael & All Angels Church
Memorial Clock to Harold Wilson (not the Prime Minister.)
War dead | Other war
1 subject commemorated
1 subject commemorated
Reggae Tree
NW10, Craven Park Road
The Reggae Tree marks International Reggae Day (July 1st) and Harlesden's and Brent's rich reggae and black music history. Sponsored by B...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
1 memorial
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