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Grace Griffiths

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Grace Griffiths

Her 1944 poem Doodlebugs was included in an audio compilation entitled 'The Best of Second World War Poetry' produced in 1993 and in the 1999 book 'Shadows of war : British women's poetry of the Second World War'.

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Prince of Wales WW2 bomb - lost

Our image comes from Paradise Memorial Garden. SarfLondonDunc informs that t...

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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

Statesman and poet. Born at the family home Wallingford House (where the Old Admirality Building now is). A baby when his father, the 1st Duke, was assassinated, he was brought up alongside Charles...

Person, Poetry, Politics & Administration

3 memorials
Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell

Poet, wit, and satirist. Born at Winestead-in-Holderness, Yorkshire. Childless, contemporary sources hint that he was impotent due to having lost a testicle to VD. For about twenty years M.P. for H...

Person, Poetry

2 memorials
John Dryden

John Dryden

Poet and playwright. Born in Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The first Poet Laureate. Died in London. Initially buried in St Anne's Church, Soho but quickly reburied in Chaucer's grave in Westminster ...

Person, Poetry, Theatre

6 memorials
David Jones

David Jones

Painter and poet. Born Walter David Michael Jones.As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engra...

Person, Art, Poetry

1 memorial
William Bell Scott

William Bell Scott

Born Edinburgh. Painter and poet, closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. His work was championed by the Rossettis, Christina and Dante Gabriel. He achieved fame when he was commissioned to do...

Person, Art, Poetry, Scotland

1 memorial

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London Docklands Development Corporation

London Docklands Development Corporation

We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey Docks area, and maybe others elsewhere. We tried Google's image search and the results made us laugh; being an array of...

Group, History, Property

22 memorials
Lieutenant Arthur Gilbey Shaw

Lieutenant Arthur Gilbey Shaw

Arthur Gilbey Shaw was born on 15 February 1895 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the third of the ten children of the Reverend Edward Domett Shaw (1860-1937) and Agnes Shaw née Gilbey (1867-1944)....

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst

Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst.  Trained and initially worked as an artist. Worked with George Lansbury in the East End. 1924 Sylvia moved from the East End of...

Person, Gender Issues, Peace, Seriously Famous, Ethiopia

10 memorials
Robert Porter Cooper

Robert Porter Cooper

Passenger killed in the Handley Page V/1500 air-crash. Robert Porter Cooper was born on 5 September 1881 in Hammond, Russell, Ontario, Canada, the eldest of the six children of William Cooper (183...

Person, Tragedy, Canada, Ireland

1 memorial
Whitechapel Bell Foundry

Whitechapel Bell Foundry

This foundry is the oldest manufacturing company in the UK and is still making bells at 32/34 Whitechapel Road. Probably their most famous creation is Big Ben (we thank Alice, a member of a childre...

Place, Commerce, Engineering

4 memorials