One of the most prestigious American universities, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Named after its first benefactor John Harvard.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Harvard University
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Queen's Head Inn, Southwark
The "Queen's Head Inn", owned by the family of John Harvard, founder of Harva...
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Sir Thomas Dewey
President of the Prudential Assurance Company. Born Thomas Charles Dewey in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. He joined the Prudential Company as a junior clerk and worked his way up. He lived in Bromley, K...
1 memorial
George Green School
Founded by shipbuilder George Green as an infants' school, at the corner of Chrisp Street and East India Dock Road. Further premises were used in Prestons Road. The school outgrew those premises (n...
3 memorials
Pumphouse Educational Trust and Museum
The museum is located on land that until 1970 was part of the Surrey Docks. After these closed, the area was refurbished and the old pumphouse became a museum. It also houses the Rotherhithe Herita...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Cardinal Griffin School / Blessed John Roche Catholic School
British History Online provides: The school was designed by David Stokes and was constructed 1950-2. The buildings were placed on the northern half of the site and the southern half was landscaped....
2 memorials
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King George V
Reigned: 1910 - 1936. Born third in line to the throne, after his father (who became King Edward VII) and his elder brother Prince Albert Victor, who died early. Crowned on 22 June 1911. Married ...
50 memorials
Hyde Park memorial to bomb attack 7/7/05
W1, Hyde Park
The 52 columns are 1m apart, 3.5m high and made of roughly textured stainless steel cast in sand. They are arranged in four clusters of ...
54 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Botanists
W1, Soho Square, 31-32
The lettering is above the right-most potted scrub. Incidentally, the photograph of the building catches a typical London sight - a van d...
4 subjects commemorated
Sir Paul Pindar
Merchant and James I’s Ambassador to Turkey, 1611 - 20. Born Northamptonshire. Became very rich and built a mansion in Bishopgate Street Without, just beyond the City walls. The mansion and its gro...
1 memorial
Sir Noel Coward - Sutton
SM1, Lenham Road, 56
The (unhelpfully brick-coloured) plaque is to the bottom left of the small upstairs window. Perhaps that was his bedroom.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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