Civil engineer. Born in Enfield. As chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works he created the London main drainage system and the Embankment. Great-great grandfather of Sir Peter, the tele...

Person, Engineering

7 memorials

Leslie Palmer

W10, Tavistock Road, 69 & 70

The Henderson plaque is at number 69, (the yellow building on the left of the photograph) and Palmer's plaque is at number 70 (the buildi...

2 subjects commemorated, 3 creators

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J. L. Smithers

Worked at the Stock Exchange and died in WW2.

Person

War dead, WW2

1 memorial

St Elizabeth of Hungary

Princess and saint. Born either in the castle of Sárospatak, or in Pozsony, both in the Kingdom of Hungary. She was married at the age of fourteen to Louis IV, the Landgrave of Thuringia, and wid...

Person, Religion, Royalty, Hungary

1 memorial