The Mayor, poor lamb, has to make 700 speeches during his year in office.
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Mayoralty of the City of London - 800th anniversary
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Bench - Mayoralty
Along the front edge of the bench 10 sets of deviders are carved and along th...
Mayoralty of the City of London - 800 years
The environmental improvements and landscaping to Salisbury Square were donat...
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Robert Hollond
Balloonist and politician. Born London to a wealthy Bengal civil servant. Financed the 1836 balloon voyage from Vauxhall Gardens to Weilburg in Germany, on which he was a passenger. This set a reco...
1 memorial
William Smith
Born Clapham. Lived at Eagle House on Clapham Common. M.P. Pioneer of religious liberty. Early advocate for the abolition of the slave trade. Grandfather of Florence Nightingale. Died at 5 Blan...
1 memorial
Stanley Carter
Local politician. Born Bradford. Graduated from Ruskin College, Oxford. Served in the navy during WW2 and later worked in the newspaper industry for more than 20 years. First elected to Enfield Co...
1 memorial
Sir Alan Traill, GBE, MA, D. Mus, Lord Mayor
Lord Mayor in 1985.
2 memorials
Edward Bostock
Bostock.net has an obituary and some photographs, and supplied the information here. Born Hampstead, son of Geoffrey. Worked as a chartered accountant, a partner in the family firm of Annan Dexte...
2 memorials
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Roland Wynne
Son of Sir David Wynne. View from the Mirror tells us "The boy featured in the artwork was modelled upon Roland David Amadeus Wynne (Roly for short) who was 11 years old at the time and later went...
1 memorial
unidentified mill in Great Sutton Street
Where there are six millstones surely there must have been a mill?
1 memorial
Benjamin Britten
Composer. Born Lowestoft on St Cecilia's Day (patron saint of music). Royal College of Music, Founder of English Opera Group 1946 and the Aldeburgh Festival. Composer of opera Peter Grimes and othe...
3 memorials
Wine Office Court
EC4, Fleet Street, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub
The Rhymers' Club is not specifically mentioned on the plaque but Ye Olde Cheese is where Yeats etc. met so we have put the Club on the l...
30 subjects commemorated
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