The Pickwick Bicycle Club was founded here on 22 June 1870. At that first meeting, it was decided that the Downs Hotel should be the general rendezvous for bi-weekly excursions on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Closed in 2007, now residential.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Downs Hotel
Commemorated ati
Pickwick Bicycle Club
Hackney Citizen 25 June 2014 gives the history of the club and explains "A co...
Other Subjects
Lloyds TSB Group
In 1765 John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd set up a private banking business in Birmingham. In 1810, the Reverend Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, set up a bank to help his poorest parishioners...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Bank of England
Founded in 1694 as a private company the Bank now performs the functions of a state bank. Londonist have an interesting post about animals at the Bank of England. The Guardian, 16 April 2022, rep...
1 memorial
Thornton's Corner
A retail business established by Tom William Thornton and run by his family for over 70 years. The premises (nos 100 - 110) sold stationery, newspapers, books and artists materials, and provided va...
1 memorial
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Clara Butt
NW3, Harley Road, 7
Butt lived here with her husband, the singer Robert Rumford, and their children.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Ha-ha in Hyde Park
W2, West Carriage Drive
We find the terminology used on the information board confusing; 'bastion' is used when 'ha-ha' would make more sense. British History s...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
1 memorial
Edwin Thomas Knott
Edwin Thomas Knott was born on 3 December 1894 in Greenwich, London, the eldest of the twelve children of Edwin Thomas Knott (1873-1938) and Elizabeth Mary Knott née Barlow (1875-1941). His birth w...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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