This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association - 50th anniversary
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain - jubilee
{On long, low bronze plaques, one on each face, starting at the south and goi...
Other Subjects
Bawley fishing boat
Whitebait were caught by this type of craft in the River Thames, until 1950. The picture source website tells us that the Bawley is a variation of the 'smack' type of ship. The name "is probably de...
First Pret a Manger shop
The brand Pret a Manger actually started in Hampstead but that folded after 18 months and the brand was sold to Julian Metcalfe and Sinclair Beecham who restarted it in Victoria near, but not actua...
drovers trail via Hackney
The route to Bishopsgate can still be seen clearly on a current map, wending its way fairly directly via roads and footpaths from Mare Street Narroway down to Virginia Road which, prior redevelopme...
Besley drinking fountain
A drinking fountain was erected in Aldersgate Street in 1878 in memory of Robert Besley. It was removed 1934.
Smithfield Poultry Market
The original poultry market by Horace Jones was opened in 1875 but destroyed by fire in 1958. Our page for that fire has an image of the original building. The new building has a concrete elliptic...
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Pimlico Grammar School
Architect was J.P. Gandy Deering. The British Museum's drawing is from 1832. Built as a non-conformist private academy for boys but the school only lasted a few years. ‘Ian Fleming’ by Andrew Lyc...
A. V. Hill
N6, Bishopswood Road, 16
A. V. Hill, 1886 - 1977, physiologist, lived here 1967. English Heritage
William MacGovan
Had served in the Duke of Cornwall's L.I. At the time of his death was an in-pensioner at Chelsea Hospital and a patient in the Infirmary.
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