Formerly part of Kent, it has been part of Greater London since 1963.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
London Borough of Bromley
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Biggin Hill Royal Air Force Station
Site of Biggin Hill Royal Air Force Station 1917 - 1992. The London Borough o...
Bromley Millennium Rock
Bromley Millennium Rock This boulder of Lewisian Gneiss from Lochinver in Nor...
Charles Keeping
Charles Keeping, 1924 - 1988, illustrator, lived here. The London Borough of ...
Chislehurst Caves
Chislehurst Caves People came from across London and north west Kent to shelt...
Other Subjects
William Huskisson
Huskisson is famous for being the victim of the first fatal railway accident (not quite true), being run over by the train known as Stevenson's Rocket, at the opening ceremony of the Manchester to ...
2 memorials
Richard Oswald
Merchant, slave trader, and diplomat. Born Scotland. 1746 he moved to London and began his own business initially in tobacco but quickly moved into the slave trade. His London base was at Philpot L...
1 memorial
Sir Robert Cotton
Antiquarian and politician. Born Robert Bruce Cotton in Denton, Huntingdonshire. He entered parliament in 1601, as the member for Newtown, Isle of Wight. His collection of manuscripts which became ...
1 memorial
Eleanor Rathbone
Politician and social reformer. Born Eleanor Florence Rathbone at 14 Prince's Gardens, according to the ODNB, our trusted source; others say Liverpool. She made an extensive study of the position o...
2 memorials
Dartford Borough Council
Formed by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Dartford, Swanscombe Urban District and part of Dartford Rural District.
5 memorials
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Hotel Russell - Disraeli
WC1, Russell Square, 1-8
This ornate extravaganza, designed by the splendidly named Fitzroy Doll, was built in 1898. Ornamental Passions has a good post about the...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum
The MBSA was created by John Christopher Bowles to 'afford an asylum for the reception of aged and infirm members of Friendly Societies' who lived in or near London. Patrons were Queen Victoria an...
1 memorial
125 deaths on Tower Hill
Wikipedia lists only 36 (in 2011). Most of the victims that we have researched are recorded as having been beheaded but A London Inheritance, quoting John Stow (c. 1598), refers to "a large scaffo...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
William of Wykeham
Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England and founder of Winchester College. Reconstructed Windsor Castle for King Edward III. Click on external site for more information. And see Winchester gees...
Person, Architecture, Politics & Administration, Property, Religion
4 memorials
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