Founded by Sir Sydney Waterlow.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Improved Industrial Dwellings Co Ltd
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1st Duke of Westminster, friend of the poor
Hugh Lupus, first Duke of Westminster, K.G., lessor to the Improved Industria...
Cromwell Buildings
The Prince Regent (later King George IV) had died more than twenty years befo...
Sandringham Buildings
Sandringham Buildings Erected by the Improved Industrial Dwellings Co Ltd (S...
Other Subjects
a2dominion
"The A2Dominion Group is one of the country’s leading providers of high quality housing."
1 memorial
Joshua Marshall
King Charles II’s Master Mason. Also worked on St Paul's Cathedral and the Temple Bar and did much work in the rebuilding of the City after the Great Fire. Born and died London.
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Docwra
Grand Prior of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, 1501-1527. In 1504 he rebuilt St John's Gate. We guess the Docwra family are descended from Sir Thomas or his family.
1 memorial
41 Maitland Park Road
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, pho...
1 memorial
Baynard’s Castle
There have been two buildings known as Baynard's Castle, on different sites. Just to the east of where Blackfriars station now stands Ralph Baynard erected a Norman fortification in about 1000. Th...
1 memorial
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Lords Meade
The picture source says "This is an 1865 photo of the house "Lord's Meade". John Eliot and Maria Howard moved there on 12th October 1830 and lived there all their lives."
1 memorial
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
Royal Coburg Theatre / Royal Victoria Theatre / Old Vic
This theatre designed by the German architect Rudolphe Cabanel, began life in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre under the patronage of Princess Charlotte of Wales and her husband Prince Leopold of C...
7 memorials
Aston Martin
Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford formed the company, initially as Bamford and Martin Ltd. They used the garage at the site of the plaque as a workshop and here they developed their first model th...
1 memorial
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, logician, essayist, social critic and campaigner for peace. Bertrand Arthur William Russell was third Earl Russell. Born Ravenscroft, Trelleck, Monmouthshire. A bad start in life - his...
3 memorials
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