Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surrounding area for the benefit of residents, businesses and visitors and to promote community spirit and a sense of shared responsibility, working in partnership with other organisations that share the same aims.
As at 2020 MA has erected 27 plaques.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Marchmont Association
Alexander Herzen, 1812 - 1870, operated the Free Russian Press from this buil...
Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least...
These streets become almost impassible during London Fashion week when the Ha...
Charles Fort, 1874 - 1932, American writer and founder of Forteanism, the stu...
Charlotte Mew, 1869 - 1928, poet, lived here, 1869 - 1890. Marchmont Association
Medical practitioner and biologist. Born Innes Hope Pearse in Purley, Surrey. She worked on thyroid research at the Royal Free Hospital, with George Scott Williamson who she later married. Together...
The Waterloo community's land planning group working with the community for more land for homes and essential amenities such as shops and open space.
Established in the medieval period and referenced by Shakespeare in 'Henry VI' and by Dickens in 'Pickwick Papers'. Not to be confused with the nearby White Hart at 22 Great Suffolk Street.
In the 19th century Swan Wharf was the site of a brewery and public house 'Swan Inn', destroyed by fire in 1871. The image, an 1878 photo by William Reid, shows the tower of All Saints behind. Th...
Peter Cook said this was modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War". Lenny Bruce, Barry Humphries, ...
The Town Hall in Euston Road once housed these interesting murals by Cecil Osborne.
Novelist and short story writer. Born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson,Chelsea. Most of her childhood was spent with her aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire, the town upon which she based Cranford in the novel...
This was part of the drainage system that kept the south bank free from flooding. The ground being very close to river level it was necessary to have a gate, or sluice-gate, across the drainage pip...
Reconstructed & widened in 1969 replacing a 28 ft. wide cast iron bridge built in 1864.
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
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