A book about London by Thomas Pennant, first published 1790. The Picture Source website does not make it clear that this picture is from Pennant's London, but it is such an apposite picture that we captured it anyway. (2025: the picture source page no long has this image.)
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Pennant's London / Of London
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Guy, Earl of Warwick
Internet Archive, Survey of London gives: "On the north-west corner of Warwic...
Other Subjects
Sir Flinders Petrie
Archaeologist specialising in Egypt. Born Charlton, near Greenwich. His maternal grandfather was Captain Matthew Flinders. Petrie was a self-taught surveyor with minimal university education. St...
1 memorial
8 memorials
Jamestown Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia
We don't think this is connected to the Jamestown Foundation based in Washington DC. We think it must be/have been a group interested in promoting the history of the early settlement of America.
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
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Fellowship Porters Hall
EC3, St Mary at Hill, 17
A London Inheritance has, again, provided some interesting background, about how this plaque has moved. It used to be below the first flo...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
William Bethell
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was Assistant Manager of the Abbey Wood branch in June 1912. Probably a cousin of the RACS architect Frank Bethell.
1 memorial
London Parochial Charities
In 1880 a report by a royal commission led to the City of London Parochial Charities Act. This provided that the five largest parishes of London could continue to administer their own charitable en...
3 memorials
Haddon Hall
Located at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham. David Bowie lived in flat 7 here from October 1969 to May 1972. The photograph shows him in the garden of the house. It was demolished in the early 1980s.
1 memorial
6 memorials
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