From the picture source website: "The fire started in consignment of jute stored at Scovell's warehouse at Cotton's Wharf. This was the biggest of all the peacetime fires in the port: it raged for two days and destroyed most of the nearby buildings. It was the greatest test of the new London Fire Engine Establishment. The whole force was mobilised to fight the blaze, including its head, James Braidwood, who was killed when a wall fell on him. It was a full two weeks before the remaining embers were finally doused."
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Great fire of Tooley Street
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Great fire of Tooley Street
2021: This plaque has been replaced with a similar plaque, re-branded to prom...
James Braidwood
What a great plaque. The inscription is inside a laurel wreath, in front of a...
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Dambusters Raid
An attack by Royal Air Force 617 Squadron on German dams using bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. The operation was led by Guy Gibson. Subject of the 1955 film The Dambusters for which Eric ...
2 memorials
J. Saunders
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Richd. T. Gates
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Queen Elizabeth II
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on where she was brought up see Byron Statue. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on the abdication of his brot...
126 memorials
John Galsworthy
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literature, 1932. The Forsyte Saga is his best known work. Died Grove Lodge, Hampstead.
4 memorials
Woodford Hall
Built, or rebuilt, in 1775 by the architect Thomas Leverton (1743 – 1824). William Morris lived here as a child, 1840 - 47, having been born at Elm House. From Theydon: 1869 - 1900 it was the Cat...
1 memorial
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