This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Alliance Assurance Company Limited
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Alliance Assurance Company
This plaque records the fact that the buildings on the estate of the Wells &a...
Other Subjects
People's Building Society
It was operating in the 1860s with branches in Deptford, Greenwich and Lewisham. In 1968 it made an application to be merged with the Greenwich Building Society. Caroline's Miscellany gives further...
Baron Gulam Noon, MBE
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon was born on 24 January 1936 in Bombay (now called Mumbai), India. Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia page give much information about th...
St Saviour’s Dock
Our picture source, HSomerville provides a thorough history of this area and says "St Saviour's Dock was created in the 13th century by the Cluniac monks of Bermondsey Abbey."
David Greig
A chain of grocery shops across north London. Faded London have more details and some photos of a splendid shop in Atlantic Road SW9.
Longman's Ship Binding Works
Thomas Longman (1699-1755) through an inheritance acquired a publishing house, The Ship, in Paternoster Row (the street of book publishers) and shortly after, The Black Swan, next door. Daniel Defo...
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Treatment Rooms 2 - Herman Wallace
W5, 199 Acton Lane
In our rather shady photo the Fred Hampton mural can just be seen, low down, below the window on the left side of the building. The Reic...
Silver Jubilee - Montague Close
SE1, Montague Close
2021: The granite stones remain but all these plaques are gone.
Enid Blyton - Dulwich
SE22, Lordship Lane, 354
This plaque is located at the site of Blyton's birthplace, presumably the house that was here before this interwar arcade went up.
Roper's Garden
SW3, Cheyne Walk, Corner of Old Church Street
Parachute mines were used in the early 40s; the end of the war was characterised by the use of V-1s and V-2s. Parachute mines are recorde...
Peace symbol
Designed by Gerald Holtom as a nuclear disarmament logo for the first Aldermaston March, which took place Easter, 4–7 April 1958. From the Hackney Gazette: "Gerald had first presented the symbol t...