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September 11 Memorial Garden

From a nearby information board: "Each column of the pergola is formed from ...

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Wynkyn De Worde

Wynkyn De Worde

Printing pioneer. Born in Woerth, Alsace, and his modern name is a corruption of Wynkyn de Woerth so, disappointingly, his is not an example of nominative determinism, unlike Isambard Brunel.  Brou...

Person, Craft / Design, Journalism / Publishing, Netherlands

1 memorial
Angus McGill

Angus McGill

Initiated the Evening Standard's appeal to replace London's lost trees. For 42 years McGill was a columnist with the Evening Standard and was co-creator, with the illustrator Dominic Poelsma, of th...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

Poet and journalist.  Alice Thompson was born in Barnes.  Her paternal grandmother was an unmarried Creole.  Educated with her sister entirely by their father as they lived a peripatetic life mainl...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Poetry, Italy

1 memorial
Hubert Carr-Gomm

Hubert Carr-Gomm

Politician and publisher.  Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm was born on 20 June 1877 in Palamcottah, Madras, India, (now Palayamkottai) and he was also baptised there on 19 August 1877. He was the...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, India, Spain

1 memorial
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Born near Dublin. As a keen cyclist (on a penny-farthing) Harmsworth was submitting freelance articles to the cycle press in the 1880s. In 1886 he was editing Bicycling News.  With his brother Haro...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Ireland

2 memorials

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St Katharine Docks

St Katharine Docks

SKDocks gives a brief introduction to the history of the area. A London Inheritance have done their usual thorough job with lots of images. In the 1976 film To the Devil a Daughter Richard Widmark...

Group, Commerce, Tourism / Traditions

4 memorials
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Novelist. Born in Salem, Massachusetts. His ancestor was John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. Nathaniel added a 'w' to his name in ord...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous, USA

1 memorial
Martha Martin

Martha Martin

Killed as a result of a 13 October 1944 air raid on Coronation Avenue.

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War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Rotherhithe Picture Research Library

Rotherhithe Picture Research Library

An educational charity, opened as part of Sands Films Studio, and situated in the same Grade II listed building. The library is home to thousands of old photographs, postcards and magazines. Pictur...

Building, Cinema, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial
Henry Allison

Henry Allison

Henry James Allison was born in 1934, the son of Henry Allison (1905-1941) and Mabel Louise Allison née Newell (1895-1944). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1934 in the Shoreditch reg...

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War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial