Crystallographer. John Desmond Bernal was born on 10 May 1901 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, the eldest of the five children of Samuel George Bernal (1864-1919) and Elizabeth Bernal née Mil...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Science, Ireland

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Hoe Street - medallion of a man with a hat

E17, Hoe Street, 105

This shop front has, like a lot of shop fronts of this period, atop the flanking pillars, decorative capitals and corbels. On this shop ...

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Fulham 2000

SW6, Stevenage Road, Craven Cottage

The plaque is between the windows on the ground and first floor.

2 subjects commemorated

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Born in Pauntley, Gloucestershire, second son of a wealthy man. Thrice Lord Mayor of London: 1397, 1406 and 1420 (actually four times but two were consecutive). Three times Master of the Mercers' C...

Person, Literature, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Theatre

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Savarkar at India House

N6, Cromwell Avenue, 65

Savarkar was here from 1906 to 1909. The plaque was unveiled by Lord Fenner Brockway on 8 June 1985.

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

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Catherine of Aragon

First wife of Henry VIII and married to him for longer (1509 - 1533) than the other five put together. Unlike them she was a powerful royal in her own right. Daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, bor...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous, Spain

4 memorials