Karl Marx lived here for the last 15 years of his life.
London Picture Archive date this photo 1935 so perhaps it was taken to show the plaque, newly erected.
Getty Images have another, 1958, photo showing this house as one in a nice curved terrace of empty properties waiting for the wrecking ball. So we can assume it was demolished in or shortly after 1958.
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41 Maitland Park Road
The image of this lost plaque comes from Wikipedia, where the story of this p...
Charles Dickens lived here with his family, 1839-51. They had moved here from 48 Doughty Street. The ninth child Dora, was born here and died here in 1851 aged just 8 months. Her mother Catherine w...
Builders and brick makers in West London. Considering their contribution to many prominent projects (listed on the plaque), it is surprising that there is no information available on them. We firs...
A prominent show business lawyer who apparently had an obituary in The Times (to which we don't have access). Son of G. Simkins. Michael owned the property in which his brother, Roger, ran the High...
Terracotta manufacturers based in Ditchling, Sussex. Made the Stratford Martyrs memorial. From Tile Gazetteer - Newham: "Johnson’s, who were active from the 1870s, made terracotta, bricks, tile...
We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey Docks area, and maybe others elsewhere. We tried Google's image search and the results made us laugh; being an array of...
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on where she was brought up see Byron Statue. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on the abdication of his brot...
Built originally as the Rotherhithe Infirmary in the early 1870s. It became the infirmary of St Olave's Union in 1875, and was renamed St Olave's Hospital in 1930. In 1966 it became part of the Guy...
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
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