Built on the site of the New Mermaid Tavern for John Robert Daniel-Tyssen . By the 1890s the house had been divided into shops and by 1877 Brett Road had encroached into its gardens.
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Manor House, Mare Street
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Manor House - Mare Street
The Manor House, built 1845 for John Robert Daniel Tyssen, steward for the Ha...
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Whittington's house
Whittington had a number of addresses in London: Hart Street, Mark Lane, Sweedon’s Passage, Grub Street (now Milton Street) and a house in (now) College Hill. This last was a significant purchase ...
1 memorial
Hyde Park Conduit House
A building that housed an ancient spring supplying water to Westminster Abbey. The right to use this was granted by King Edward the Confessor. This right ceased temporarily at the Reformation, but ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
West Hackney Almshouses / Cooke's Rents
Mainly from British History Online we've learnt the following: In 1740 Thomas Cooke, a director of the Bank of England, built almshouses, Cooke’s Rents, for 8 poor families with small children, and...
1 memorial
Greenwich Palace / Palace of Placentia
The palace was built, as Bella Court, by Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, regent to the child king Henry VI. When the king married Margaret of Anjou Humphrey fell out of favour and died in prison in 1...
2 memorials
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Heroes of Telemark
In 1943 Norwegian resistance commandos sponsored by the SOE raided the enemy-occupied Norsk hydro plant in the Telemark region of Norway. This successful raid sabotaged the machinery that was produ...
2 memorials
John Lewis war damage
W1, Oxford Street, John Lewis
The large aluminium sculpture "Winged Figure" on the side of the building is by Barbara Hepworth. See Ornamental Passions for commentary ...
2 subjects commemorated
Benjamin Clemens
Sculptor based in Chelsea. Born Dalston. Served in WW1. Other work in London includes: Africa House Kingsway and the Burlington Arcade.
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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