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Evening Standard

Founded as The Standard it was first printed at 5 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars.

May 2024: Londonist reported: "Evening Standard To End Its Daily Newspaper ... the Standard's new-look weekly will launch later this year."

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Evening Standard

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8 - Cheshire Court – the Standard

Cheshire Court The Standard Monday May 21, 1827 {A facsimile of a page of the...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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People of London - St Paul's

Cut from a single block of Irish limestone. The quote was used by Churchill b...

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Storm Tree - Charing Cross

When we first saw the plaque it was in the pavement close to the tree but is ...

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Philip Geddes

Philip Geddes

Journalist, 24. From Geddes Trust (previously geddesprize.co.uk): The awards are named after Philip Geddes, a member of St Edmund Hall {Oxford University} and a journalist of considerable promise. ...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Tragedy

1 memorial
Peter Warlock

Peter Warlock

Born The Savoy Hotel, as Philip Arnold Heseltine. Peter Warlock was his pseudonym. Journalist, music critic and composer. His music was heavily influenced by Elizabethan and Celtic culture. Influen...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Wales

2 memorials
William Caxton

William Caxton

Probably born Tenterden, Kent. Printer, in 1474, producing the first book printed in English "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye". Died Westminster.

Person, Craft / Design, Journalism / Publishing

3 memorials
Nature

Nature

Scientific Journal published by Macmillan's. Created by Norman Lockyer to 'provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge' The journal's name...

Media, Journalism / Publishing, Science

1 memorial
John Newbery

John Newbery

Publisher who was the first to be successful with books for children. Born Berkshire. Died at home in St Paul's Churchyard. In the absense of a picture of Newbery himself we are showing one of his...

Person, Children, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial

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Maxim Gun

Maxim Gun

The first portable automatic machine gun. In the 1888 photograph the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) is firing with Maxim standing behind.

Concept, Armed Forces, Engineering

1 memorial
sinking of the Titanic

sinking of the Titanic

On board were over 2,200 people: 1,316 passengers and about 900 crew.  1,517 lives were lost, including W. T. Stead and Christopher Head, but not J. P. Morgan, nor Charles Lightoller nor Harold Bri...

Event, Tragedy

8 memorials
G. F. Watts

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...

Person, Art, Sculpture

17 memorials
Joe Strummer

Joe Strummer

Co-founder and lead singer of The Clash. Born as John Graham Mellor in Turkey and raised in Scotland. "London Calling" is his. Died suddenly of a heart defect at his home in Somerset.

Person, Music / songs, Scotland, Turkey

2 memorials
Cherry Tree Trust

Cherry Tree Trust

A privately funded charity established by Charles Pink. Its objective is to foster growth by finding a way to support small businesses.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial