"In use in the 18th and 19th centuries" so the dates we give are very approximate.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Grove Road Toll Bar
Commemorated ati
Grove Road Toll Bar
Site of Grove Road Toll Bar. In use in the 18th and 19th centuries. Bow Herit...
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Sir Frederick Wigan
Merchant based in Southwark. First treasurer of Southwark Cathedral. He had homes at Clare Lawn, Mortlake, and at Purland Chase in Ross, Herefordshire. This image shows Wigan's memorial in that ca...
Henry Ford
American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-clas...
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District Bank
Founded as Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. Name shortened to District Bank in 1924. 1962 acquired by the National Provincial Bank but traded separately until the 1968 merger with Westminste...
John Bennet Lawes
Entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. Born at Rothamsted, Hertfordshire. He founded an experimental farm that eventually became the Rothamsted Experimental Station, and developed a superphosphat...
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St Martin's Gardens
NW1, St Martin's Gardens, Camden Street
The plaques are just inside the gates, on the wall behind the pillar. The gravestones littering this park and its name suggest that it us...
Hattie Jacques
Actrees, born Josephine Edwina Jacques at 125 High Street, Sandgate, Kent. She featured in some of the most successful British radio and television programmes and films. On radio she was in ITMA, E...
Marylebone Flyover
This flyover is one end of a short disconnected piece of motorway, the Westway, constructed 1964-70 to relieve congestion, back in the days when this was thought to be the solution. It was part of ...
Parachute mines
These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
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