Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: George Thomas Stanley Baxter was born on 23 November 1901 in Sheerness, Kent, the eldest son and the second of the four children of George Baxter (18...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1

1 memorial

Royal Brass Foundry

The Woolwich riverfront had been used as a dockyard and arms store for decades so having the foundry here made sense. It's construction was in response to a fatal explosion at Bagley's Foundry, jus...

Building, Armed Forces, Engineering

2 memorials

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Aldersgate Flame

EC1, Bastion High Walk, Museum of London entrance

2021: Karen Kirkham has kindly written to say "The monument, designed by my late father-in-law R. M. P. Ludlow, was erected in 1990." Th...

5 subjects commemorated, 3 creators

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Worshipful Company of Launderers

Their coat of arms shows two women; one dressed as a Grecian godess, the other in a Victorian style uniform but both engaged in the labour of laundry. In contrast the 'about us' page of their webs...

Group, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial

David Viscount de Stern

Banker. Born in Frankfurt. Brother to Herman Stern, husband to Sophia and father of Edward and Sydney. In 1869 the King of Portugal conferred the title of Viscount on him in recognition of the wor...

Person, Commerce, Germany, Portugal

2 memorials

King Charles III

One-time patron of the Goon Show Preservation Society. On the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022, Charles, the longest-serving British heir apparent, went from Prince of W...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous

27 memorials

Hitchcock mosaics 01 - The Birds, 1963

E11, Church Lane, Leytonstone tube station

Rather than repeat information on all 17 pages we have put everything about the creators of these murals on the first mural only, The Birds.

1 subject commemorated, 3 creators

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