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125th anniversary of the foundation of Reuters
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Paul Reuter bust
This style of bust, called a herm bust, originated in ancient Greece. Oddly, ...
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John Newbery
Publisher who was the first to be successful with books for children. Born Berkshire. Died at home in St Paul's Churchyard. In the absense of a picture of Newbery himself we are showing one of his...
1 memorial
Builder / Building
Architectural journal created by Joseph Hansom as 'The Builder', renamed 'Building' in 1966 and still going strong. Edited by Hansom and then Alfred Bartholomew, it became successful and well-respe...
1 memorial
Henry White
Edited the Sunday Times, from the first edition in 1822.
1 memorial
First printed bible in English
James Nicholson, a printer residing at St Thomas' Hospital was granted a license by Henry VIII to print the New Testament in Latin and in English and it was printed in 1537. However it's not clear...
1 memorial
Henry Brooks Adams
Apart from the fact that he won a Pulitzer for "Education of Henry Adams," 1919, all that the web can supply for him is quotations. You might have better luck. We published this plaque in 2009 and...
1 memorial
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J. S. Crone, Junr.
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
George Thomas Dorrell, VC, MBE
Soldier. Born George Thomas Dorrell in Paddington. Wikipedia informs that he joined the army at the age of fifteen and first served in the Second Boer War. On 1st September 1914, at Néry, France, d...
War served, WW1
3 memorials
Bert Hardy
SE1, Webber Street, The Priory
The building is dated 1893 and presumably was named after Blackfriars Priory even though that was on the other side of the river.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Manor of Rotherhithe
First recorded in Norman times as part of the royal demesne. It had a long succession of owners and tenants who held rights over the area.
1 memorial
Clothworkers Company
Their Hall, next to All Hallows Staining, was destroyed in the Great Fire.
3 memorials
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