This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Archway Toll Gate
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Other Subjects
The Bell, Carter Lane
From this inn, on 25 October 1598, Richard Quiney wrote a letter to William Shakespeare. This letter, the only one addressed to Shakespeare that has survived, is held by the museum at Strafford. Th...
The Three Cripples public house
Pub in Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist".
Provident Life Office
A savings bank launched by Barber Beaumont in 1806. We think this went on to become part of Friends Provident. Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Henry F. Collins
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Sir William Stanley
Soldier who fought in the Wars of the Roses. Born Lancashire. Originally a Yorkist, he switched sides and in 1485 fought at Bosworth Field for Tudor Henry VII, for which he was appointed Lord Cha...
Dame Myra Hess
Pianist. Born Julia Myra Hess in South Hampstead. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. During WW2, when concert halls were blacked out at night, she organise...
WW2 - Westminster
NW1, Marylebone Road, Westminster Council House
15 August is the official VJ Day in the UK so erecting this plaque on Wednesday 16th was perverse.
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