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Besley drinking fountain

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A drinking fountain was erected in Aldersgate Street in 1878 in memory of Robert Besley. It was removed 1934.

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Besley drinking fountain removed

This plaque surely should have been designed with the Clarendon typeface, jus...

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Parish pump Tooting

Parish pump Tooting

Artesian well sunk by the parish at their own expense. From the near-by pump the villagers received a supply of water at the rate of 130 gallons per minute. Known as "The Parish Pump" it was in use...

Building, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Tea Trade in London

Tea Trade in London

The following text is taken from the Shoreditch plaque: This plaque commemorates 350 years of the tea industry in the City of London. The industry was spread over Plantation House (now Plantation ...

Group, Commerce, Food & Drink, Industry

3 memorials
Tata Consumer Products

Tata Consumer Products

From their website: "Tata Consumer was formed with a vision to synergise, simplify and scale the principal consumer products interests of the Tata Group under one umbrella Today, we are one of the ...

Group, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Ralph Thrale

Ralph Thrale

Son of Anne Thrale, sister of Edmund Halsey who took him into his brewery business, the Anchor Brewery. Thrale.com tells this interesting story: "When Ralph took a wife in the early 1720's, he cho...

Person, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Imperial Hotel, Russell Square

Imperial Hotel, Russell Square

Designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll.  The picture was taken in 1913 after the completion of the extension, which is the section on the left, to the north (2017: we now think the 'extension' was into t...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

22 memorials

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Derek Lovejoy & Partners

Derek Lovejoy & Partners

Architects and landscape designers.

Group, Architecture

2 memorials
Francis Bourgeois

Francis Bourgeois

Artist. Born Peter Francis Lewis Bourgeois in London. He became an art dealer and collector in association with Margaret and Noel Desenfans, and with them founded the Dulwich Picture Gallery. In 17...

Person, Art

1 memorial
St Olav's Church - 1977

St Olav's Church - 1977

SE16, St Olav's Square, St Olav's Church

St Olav's Church was designed by John Love Seaton Dahl. Crown Prince Olav was present at the laying of the foundation stone, 1926, and th...

1 subject commemorated
Patricia Penn (Penny)

Patricia Penn (Penny)

Patricia Rosemary Anderton Penn was born on 13 November 1914 in Battersea, the third daughter of William Arthur Penn (1876-1945) and Jane Winifred Penn née Hartley (1875-1923). Her father had been ...

Person, History

1 memorial
Great Storm of 1987

Great Storm of 1987

In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East England. In four violent hours London lost 250,000 trees. Its skyline changed for ever.  22 people were killed in Englan...

Event, Tragedy

11 memorials