Initiated the Evening Standard's appeal to replace London's lost trees. For 42 years McGill was a columnist with the Evening Standard and was co-creator, with the illustrator Dominic Poelsma, of the Clive and Augusta strip cartoons. He was named Descriptive Writer of the Year 1968, and appointed MBE 1990.
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Angus McGill
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Angus McGill
This plaque was installed in 2017, on the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm...
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Olympic Way
Wembley Stadium, then known as the Empire Stadium, was opened in 1923. Anyone arriving at Wembley Park station to visit the Stadium had to first cross a road and some railway lines, and then negoti...
2 memorials
Charles Bridgeman
Landscape gardener. As Royal Gardener 1726-38, he laid out Kensington Gardens for Queen Caroline. Apart from when he was staying away on the job, he lived from 1723 to his death at what is now 5...
3 memorials
Abney Park Cemetery Company
Set up to run the Abney Park cemetery in Stoke Newington (see Abney House and Park), this company also ran the Chingford Mount cemetery. It went into administration in the 1970s.
1 memorial
New River Loop - restoration
London Gardens Trust says "In 1890 the portion of the New River around Enfield village was piped underground, thereby making this stretch redundant. It was saved from being filled in by a public ca...
1 memorial
Croydon Road Recreation Ground
The land was purchased by the Beckenham Local Board to provide a public open space which had been lacking since the loss of the Fair Field for housing in the 1870s. The site was part of open farmla...
1 memorial
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American troops in WW2 in London
During WW2 the US armed forces worshipped at the Grosvenor Chapel and partied at Rainbow Corner. This seems a good place to mention the searchable on-line honour roll of 28,000 Americans based in ...
3 memorials
Churchwardens' pier at St Botolphs
EC2, Bishopsgate, St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate churchyard
The piers on either side of the path look like gate-posts but there's no evidence of any gates ever having been attached. Each of the pie...
1 creator
Mosaics - emblem
EC4, New Change, One New Change - roof terrace
The star is surrounded by an English rose, a Scots thistle, an Irish clover sprig and a Welsh daffodil. This mosaic, the right most, doe...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Charles Wheeler
SW3, Old Church Street, 49
The white stone below the plaque is inscribed 'Hereford Buildings 1878'.
1 subject commemorated
1 memorial
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