Sculptor and painter. Born Hackney. Other work in London: Heston war memorial.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Arthur George Walker
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Emmeline Pankhurst monument
Walker sculpted the statue, Baker designed the plinth. Unveiled by Baldwin. ...
Florence Nightingale - statue
{On front of plinth:} Florence Nightingale {On left side of plinth:} Born May...
Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake
There are actually 2 busts (identical we think): one facing into the square a...
St Anne's Church Limehouse - WW1 memorial
The quotation "Greater love ... his friends." is from the biblical book of Jo...
St Silas cross
Unusually this memorial was erected before the end of the war. There may be ...
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Mel Calman
Cartoonist. Born Melville Calman at 64 Linthorpe Road, Stamford Hill. After trying unsuccessfully to work for Punch Magazine, he supplied pocket cartoons for the Daily Express, but left because he ...
Philip Wilson Steer
Artist. Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire. Entered the civil service, but found the examinations too demanding. Became an artist in 1878. Rejected by the Royal Academy of Art, he studied in Paris. He wa...
Edward Armitage
Painter. Born Tavistock Square and died Tunbridge Wells. The picture is a self-portrait. On the Albert Hall frieze Armitage contributed two of the sixteen sections: 'Princes, Art Patrons and Art...
The Arts Club
Private members club founded by, amongst others, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Lord Leighton. "This Club is instituted for the purpose of facilitating the social intercourse of those conne...
Dame Laura Knight
Painter. Born Derbyshire with the surname Johnson. Met her future husband Harold at Nottingham Art School, though they did not become romantically involved until 1894, after they had both left, an...
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Yury Gagarin
Astronaut. From Rianovosti: "Gagarin visited London in July 1961, three months after his legendary flight. He met with members of the Foundry Workers Union during his visit, as he had worked as a ...
Moorgate tube disaster
At Moorgate station a southbound tube train from Drayton Park failed to stop on a terminus platform, ran into the tunnel, through the buffers and smashed into the wall at the end. Because it was b...
Katherine Mackay Low
Philanthropist. Born in Georgia, USA to British parents. After her mother's death, the family moved to Britain. In Battersea, which at the time was a deprived area of London, she devoted herself to...
Queen Victoria statue - Victoria Square
SW1, Victoria Square, Private Garden
The bronze statue depicts the Queen as she would have looked when she started her reign, in 1837, and when the square was first laid out,...
John Conder, DD
Non-conformist minister. Born in Cambridgeshire. Died Hackney. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
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