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Jonas Watson
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Rossetti fountain
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
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John Spedan Lewis
Retailer and industrial reformer. Born in Marylebone, the son of John Lewis. His second name was derived by reversing the names of Ann Speed, the maiden aunt who raised his father. He was given con...
Emily Sparkes
Emily Carpenter, daughter of a Bromley gamekeeper, met George Sparkes while working as his housekeeper. In 1865 she became his second wife. "He is said to have educated the lively and intelligent E...
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V1 and V2 rockets
The V1 and V2 rockets were developed as a reaction to the heavy allied bombing of German cities towards the end of WW2. (V stands for Vergeltungswaffe - retribution weapon'). In total, over 3,000 V...
Francis Turner Palgrave
NW1, York Gate, 1 - 5
Greater London Council Francis Turner Palgrave, 1824 - 1897, compiler of the "Golden Treasury", lived here, 1862 - 1875.
David Thompson
Fur-trader, surveyor and mapmaker. Born Dafydd ap Thomas at Marsham Street, London. He was chosen to be an apprentice to the Hudson Bay Company. Transferring to the North West Company in 1797 he em...
Sir George Robert Tyler
Lord Mayor 1893-4. According to Wikipedia he so impressed the Belgians during a state visit that they named a street in Antwerp in his honour as 'Rue lord mayor Tyler' but GoogleMaps knows nothing...
Charles H. Osmer
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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