Psychoanalyst who works near West Smithfield and is interested in local history. He felt passionately that there should be a memorial where the denouement of the 1381 revolt took place and where Tyler fell. Up to this point there had been none. It took him about a year of bureaucratic to-ing and fro-ing to get the go ahead from The City, St Bart's and English Heritage. He commissioned Emily Hoffnung to design and carve the Great Rising memorial. And went on to arrange for the Rosa Luxemburg plaque.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Matthew Bell
Creations i
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg, 1871 - 1919. On this site in 1907, revolutionary socialist Ro...
The Great Rising / Peasants' Revolt
Matthew Bell realised that The Great Rising lacked a proper memorial and that...
Other Subjects
Blackheath Preservation Trust
One of the oldest building preservation trusts in the United Kingdom. It was founded by members of the newly-formed Blackheath Society as an independent and separate property company. Its original ...
3 memorials
Octavia Hill
Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, her father's eighth daughter (yes, really). She believed that social housing should be small houses (rather...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Property, Social Welfare
9 memorials
A. J. P. Taylor
Historian and broadcaster. Born Alan John Percivale Taylor in Birkdale, Lancashire. A lecturer in modern history at Manchester University and in international history at Oxford. His major works inc...
1 memorial
Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.
12 years President of the Royal Geographic Society. Born at Stillingfleet, Yorkshire. Drowned crossing a river in Peru.
1 memorial
National Maritime Museum
One of a trio of Greenwich museums, the others being the Royal Observatory and the Queen's House.
Group, Armed Forces, History, Museums / Libraries, Transport
3 memorials
Previously viewed
St Dunstans gates - 1999
E1, Stepney High Street
This small plaque is on the inner gate pier to the right of our photo. We like the way they have copied the idea and the style of the 18...
1 subject commemorated,
6 creators
Hampstead Road Bridge over Grand Union Canal
The Listing for the current bridge tells us it is a "Public road bridge over the Grand Union Canal and towpaths. 1876, replacing an earlier inadequate brick bridge of c1815. Provided by the St Panc...
1 memorial
Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson
Born Cheltenham. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Cheltenham honours Wilson with a statue on the Promenade and an exhibition in the town museum.
2 memorials
Bernard Joseph Brown, CBE, JP
Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public. Mayor of Hillingdon 1969-1970. Bernard Joseph Brown was born on 27 February 1916, his birth being regis...
Person, Armed Forces, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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