Writer. Born Phyllis Dorothy James in Oxford. Best known for her crime novels, many of them featuring the detective Adam Dalgliesh. Created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991.
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Three Men in a Boat
Comic novel written by Jerome K. Jerome first published in 1889.
1 memorial
Murder on the Orient Express
Detective novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot.
1 memorial
Doves Bindery
The Doves Press in Hammersmith was founded in 1900 by Thomas Cobden-Sanderson in partnership with Emery Walker and was named after the nearby pub. Sanderson had already set up The Doves Bindery in...
2 memorials
Cecil Day Lewis
Poet and novelist. Born Ireland but brought up in London. His mystery novels were written under his pseudonym, Nicholas Blake. During the 1940s, while still married to his first wife, he had a long...
3 memorials
E. V. Knox
Editor of Punch, 1932 - 1949, essayist and poet. Used the penname Evoe. In 1977 his daughter, Penelope Fitzgerald the author, wrote a biography, "The Knox Brothers" of him and his two brothers.
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Battersea Park re-opened, 2004
Battersea Park was re-opened to the public after extensive restoration.
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H. J. E. Smith
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
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John Hungerford Pollen
Decorative artist. Born 6 New Burlington Street to Richard and Anne, sister to Charles Cockerell. Ordained as an Anglican priest in 1845, but converted to Roman Catholicism in1852. He worked on man...
1 memorial
Princess Royal Nurses Home
WC1, Guilford Street
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer of 1933, the Princess Royal was suffering "a frantic debili...
1 subject commemorated,
12 creators
Beckenham Auxiliary firemen
BR3, Beckenham Road, 8, Beckenham Fire Station
Those killed at Old Palace School are also commemorated (not by name) on a plaque at the site of the original school, although this gives...
Civilian war dead | WW2
32 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
32 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
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