Formed as a merger of various areas of Essex.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
London Borough of Redbridge
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Redbridge - 40th anniversary of election of first mayor
This plaque to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the election of the first ...
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London Borough of Redbridge
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James Bradley
{Circular plaque:} In Wanstead James Bradley, Third Astronomer Royal, 1691 - ...
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Thomas Paine
Revolutionary. Born Thetford, Norfolk. Emigrated to the British American colonies and took part in the American Revolution. Travelled to France in 1781 and became sufficiently involved in politics ...
Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, France, USA
2 memorials
Borough of Walthamstow
Walthamstow was a local government district 1894 -1965 when it combined with Chingford and Leyton to form Waltham Forest.
4 memorials
Sir Charles Morgan
In 1792 Charles Gould (1726 – 1806), lawyer and politician, married Jane Morgan and in 1792 inherited her family’s property in Tredegar, Wales. At the same time he changed his name to Morgan and wa...
1 memorial
Sir Rowland Hill
Initiator of the uniform Penny Post in 1840. Due to him Britain was the first country to use adhesive stamps and thus we do not have to put the name of our country on them. This is analogous to the...
6 memorials
Jonathan Thorp
Chairman of the Thames Navigation & Port of London Committee in 1857. We can’t find a picture of the man but here’s the cup he was presented with, inscribed: “Thames Navigation & Port of ...
2 memorials
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Sir William Prichard
Alder President associated with St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1702. A director of the slave trading Royal African Company and a governor of the colonial Irish Society.
1 memorial
Dolphin pub
We found the building on Google Street View dated 2012 but by 2014 it was gone. From the design of the building and the dolphin relief we'd guess it was built c1930-40. It appears on a 1950 map. T...
1 memorial
Albert Edward McKenzie, VC
Heroic Able Seaman. Born Alice Street, Bermondsey. He was on board HMS Vindictive when it entered the Bruges-Zeebrugge canal on 23 April 1918 intent on a raid and he was one of the few in his landi...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Manor of Hyde
An area roughly equivalent to modern-day Hyde Park. It was owned by Westminster Abbey, and its woods afforded both fire-wood and shelter for the monks and for their game and water-fowl.
1 memorial
John Gregory
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
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