This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Chalk Farm bus garage workers who died in WW1
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Chalk Farm bus garage - WW1 1920 plaque - lost
The unveiling image (© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection) is ca...
Chalk Farm bus garage - WW1 "Grotto" plaque
In 2021 Robert Turner sent us photos of a postcard showing a war memorial at ...
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Hebra Gemilut Hasadim
This phrase translates as "Society for Deeds of Loving Kindness", a Jewish Benevolent Society. It was established on the site where Albert Stern House now is and included a hospital for sick poor a...
Sculpture Castings Ltd
From their website: "Sculpture Castings is a leading fine art foundry based in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Offering the complete foundry service and using a range of traditional skills..." Oddly the Ar...
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
The Surveyors Club was formed in 1792 but the modern group was formed in 1868 at a meeting in London's Westminster Palace Hotel. It received a royal charter on 26 August 1881. Its HQ has been at t...
A. Bishop and family
Researched by Andrew Behan: Alfred Bishop was born in Stourport, Worcestershire, the eleventh and youngest child of William Bishop and Matilda Bishop née Broughton. His father was a Tailor and Dra...
Yes
A progressive rock band formed in the basement of the then Lucky Horseshoe Cafe, at the site of the plaque. Their first gig with the name Yes was in Essex on 3 August 1968. The band is still recor...
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G. F. Watts
Born in London. His piano-making father named him after Handel. Married briefly to Ellen Terry, many years his junior. 1886 married Mary Tytler. The statue 'Physical Energy' in Hyde Park is his. Le...
Emily Wilding Davison
Militant suffragette. Born Roxburgh House, Vanbrugh Park Road, Greenwich (see Running Past for info about the house). Brought up in Hertfordshire until aged 11 when the family returned to London. H...
Sir Henry Tate
SW2, Effra Road, Brixton Tate Library
The inscribed day of death, 8, is consistently contradicted by other sources which give 5. The inscription on the rear of the plinth is a...
Waterloo Bridge
WC2, Waterloo Bridge
In our photo you can see how distressed the lettering is, and that it was once picked out in gold paint.
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