We found reference to George Holliday in the obituary of his son, Basil Holliday, MC (1920 - 2006) in the newsletter of the Tylers and Bricklayers Company (18 November 2007): "Basil’s father, George Holliday, was a chartered surveyor who practised in Croydon before his appointment to the City Surveyor to the Corporation of the City of London."
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George Holliday
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Old Bailey - WW2 plaque
The Latin is a very appropriate legal phrase, meaning "Let justice be done th...
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Red Lion House
Spitalfields Life, our picture source, says: "Becoming the Red Lion Tavern after his {Culpeper's} death, the building was demolished in the eighteen-forties as part of road widening when Commercial...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Lanesborough House
Built by James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough. Converted into a hospital in 1733. Three-storey, red brick simple design. Wings were later added to the structure by architect Isaac Ware. Demoli...
2 memorials
York Watergate
See Norwich Place/York House for more about the history of this site. In 1874 the construction of Embankment Gardens left this watergate high and dry. In 1893, the watergate having fallen into de...
3 memorials
Myddelton House
This site was previously occupied by an Elizabethan red-brick building known as Bowling Green House. In 1613 Hugh Myddelton, constructed the New River, the course of which bisected the land around ...
1 memorial
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Brian Poole
Singer. Born in Dagenham. He became lead singer with the Tremeloes (originally Tremoloes), and had several hit singles in the 1960s including 'Twist and Shout' and 'Do You Love Me'. The group split...
1 memorial
Councillor A. R. Bean
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.
2 memorials
Jubilee Gardens - second opening
SE1, Belvedere Road, Jubilee Gardens
We'd given up the original plaque as lost, and had never even seen the second one, until 2022 when Londonist reported on this arrangement...
2 subjects commemorated,
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Hackney Council
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington, all three of which had been created in 1900. Previously they had been paris...
61 memorials
H. P. Clements
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
1 memorial
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