Sculptor. Born in Albania and now resident in the USA. His works include memorials to the Albanian hero George Skanderbeg in London, Macedonia and Michigan, and a monument to Mother Teresa of Calcutta in Cleveland, Ohio.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Kreshnik Xhiku
The statue was installed as part of the City of Sculpture initiative created ...
Leading metal sculptor of birds and beasts. Born Poland and came to England aged 5. His Wikipedia page and his own website show a number of other works, which have a lovely sense of joy and lightness.
Sculptor. Her website, our picture source, says that she "lives and works in the east end with a studio in the Bromley by Bow community centre."
Born Australia. Served in WW2 initially as a sapper and then as a war artist.
West Ham was merged with parts of Barking and Woolwich to form the London Borough of Newham in 1965.
Born Northumberland. Journalist and broadcaster for the BBC, known for her work as a war correspondent.
A piling from the Roman river wall found in Fish Street Hill in 1931 is thought to date from AD 75 and to have been destroyed in the AD 120 fire that destroyed Roman London. That's the second Grea...
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...
Founded in 1681 by a land charter granted by Charles II to William Penn.
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