John H. Watson, MD, friend of Sherlock Holmes.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Dr Watson
Commemorated ati
Holmes & Watson - Barts
The incident commemorated takes place in the first Sherlock Holmes story "A S...
Holmes & Watson - Criterion
Here, New Years Day, 1881, at the Criterion Long Bar, Stamford, dresser at Ba...
Holmes & Watson - Criterion - lost
The presence of Sherlock Holmes at this unveiling is rather misleading since ...
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Church of the Assumption & St Gregory
W1, Warwick Street
The first church on this site was built as a Catholic chapel to serve the Portuguese Embassy behind it, in Golden Square.
B. B. Higgins
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Peter Bradbury
Peter Bradbury was born on 13 April 1951 the son of Jack Bradbury (1912-1972) and Lilian Mary Bradbury née Warburton (1912-1979). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1951 in the Leeds, W...
John Adams
W1, Grosvenor Square, 9
Nicknamed "little America", the association of Grosvenor Square with America began when John Adams, later President, moved to this addres...
St Mary Matfelon
E1, Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel Road
Our picture comes from Google satellite view and shows, better than can be seen at ground level, the (partial) outlines of the two church...
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