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Cannon in Gunpowder Square

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Cannon in Gunpowder Square

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Cannon

{On plaque attached to one side of cannon:} Opened on 29th November 1989 by ...

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Priory of St John-the-Baptist, Holywell

Priory of St John-the-Baptist, Holywell

Founded before 1127. Augustinian. Disbanded y Henry VIII c. 1540.

Place, Religion

1 memorial
Harrow & Stanmore Railway

Harrow & Stanmore Railway

Our image shows the station building at Stanmore, renamed Stanmore Village. Dewi Williams has more photos of the building, in 1949. In 1882, nearby Bentley Priory, a stately home and deer park, wa...

Place, Transport

1 memorial
St Columba's Church Haggerston

St Columba's Church Haggerston

Designed by James Brooks. Located at 217 - 223 Kingsland Road, E2, it is now the Christ Apostolic Church.

Place, Religion

1 memorial
Southwark Park

Southwark Park

The Park was created mainly from market gardens. More information at  Historic England. The opening day is variously given as 19 or 9. An information board at each of the main entrances to the par...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture

2 memorials
Tothill Fields Prison

Tothill Fields Prison

Also known as Tothill Fields Bridewell, Westminster Bridewell and the Westminster House of Correction. It was one of the less severe places of incarceration, as one of the main punishments was not ...

Place, Law

2 memorials

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Annette Mendelsohn

Annette Mendelsohn

Child & adolescent psychotherapist.  Born in London to a Belgian Jewish refugee mother. First a teacher to people with learning difficulties, then a dancer, then a career in psychotherapy.  Mar...

Person, Medicine

1 memorial
Lieutenant Colonel David Waring Eustace, MBE

Lieutenant Colonel David Waring Eustace, MBE

David Waring Eustace was born on 2 July 1944 in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, a son of Colonel Frank Albert Eustace, OBE, Royal Marines, (1908-1976) and Rosemary Anne Eustace née King (1917-1978). His ...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

1 memorial
Violette Szabo, GC, CdeG

Violette Szabo, GC, CdeG

British secret agent in WW2. Born in Paris as Violette Bushell of a French mother and English father who met in WW1. With 4 brothers she was a bit of a tomboy. From Violette Szabo Museum "The Bushe...

Person, Espionage, Execution, France

War dead, WW2
6 memorials
Bishop Creighton

Bishop Creighton

SW6, Bishop's Avenue, Fulham Palace Gardens

Londonist brought this engaging multiple memorial to our attention. Information about visiting Fulham Palace. Bishop Porteus looks out c...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators