Landscape gardener. As Royal Gardener 1726-38, he laid out Kensington Gardens for Queen Caroline. Apart from when he was staying away on the job, he lived from 1723 to his death at what is now 54 Broadwick Street. Died at his official house in Kensington.
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Charles Bridgeman
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Buck Hill bastion
This is really an information board rather than a plaque and has a number of ...
Charles Bridgeman
Greater London Council Charles Bridgeman, landscape gardener, lived here, 17...
Ha-ha in Hyde Park
We find the terminology used on the information board confusing; 'bastion' is...
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Dovehouse Green
Here we summarise the splendid London Gardens Online : Land given by Sir Hans Sloane in 1733 to serve the Chelsea Parish Church of St Luke's and became the King's Road Burial Ground. 1882 a mortu...
2 memorials
2 memorials
Lauderdale House
Originally built for Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London) in 1582 with a timber frame. In the early 17th Century it was occupied by Sir Henry Hobart. Later Mary, Countess of Home extended the hou...
1 memorial
Friends of Burgess Park
The Friends of Burgess Park are an association of people and other interested groups who are concerned to protect, promote and enhance an important, inner-city London park.
4 memorials
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Bishop Wood of Croydon
Wilfred Denniston Wood was Bishop of Croydon 1985 -2003, the first black bishop in the Church of England. He came second in the "100 Great Black Britons" list in 2004. Born in Barbados, ordained th...
1 memorial
St Michael's church WW1 cross
NW1, Camden Road
11 names are totally illegible and so are not included under Subjects commemorated. A few others are too weather-worn to to be totally l...
War dead | WW1
94 subjects commemorated
94 subjects commemorated
Alan Cartwright
Alan Barry Cartwright. At 7.30pm 15-year-old Alan was stabbed to death as he cycled with three friends in the Caledonian Road. The attackers made off with two bicycles. A few weeks later, on 6 Ma...
2 memorials
Hammersmith Socialists
W6, Upper Mall, 26, Kelmscott House
The inscription is a quote from William Morris's 1890 "News from Nowhere", in which the narrator, William Guest, the previous day having ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - original plaque
SE15, Linden Grove, Nunhead Cemetery
The plaque is actually a resin copy of the one that was attached to the original memorial for the Walworth Scouts drowned at Leysdown. Th...
11 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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