This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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1 - Crane Court – The Daily Courant
Crane Court The Daily Courant, No 1 Wednesday March 11, 1702 {A facsimile of ...
2 - Red Lion Court – Caslon
Red Lion Court W Caslon Junr Letter founder ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAEOE I...
3 - Johnson’s Court – Dr Johnson’s Dictionary
{A facsimile of a page of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary.} From 1748 to 1759 Dr Joh...
4 - St Dunstan’s Court – Space Invaders
Seems very odd for the chosen illustration to be of a computer game.
5 - Bolt Court – The Sun
Bolt Court The Sun {A facsimile of a page of the paper.} Tuesday 15 September...
Other Subjects
The Three Cripples public house
Pub in Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist".
Sir Frederick Wigan
Merchant based in Southwark. First treasurer of Southwark Cathedral. He had homes at Clare Lawn, Mortlake, and at Purland Chase in Ross, Herefordshire. This image shows Wigan's memorial in that ca...
Pimlico Tavern & Pimlico Pleasure Gardens, Hoxton
It seems likely that this tavern and pleasure gardens took the name of a publican with the foreign name 'Pimlico'. There were many places of entertainment nearby and the whole area became known as...
Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt
Master mariner. Born Southampton. From Hellfire Corner : Captain of the Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Brussels, he in utter defiance of the Germans continued to work the Rotterdam-Briti...
Horatio Myer & Co.Ltd
Horatio Myer (7 June 1850 - 1 January 1916) was born Hereford, the son of a German Jewish immigrant. He moved to London and in 1876 in Vauxhall he set up business producing metal beds and later pr...
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Great Eastern Railway
Formed from an amalgamation of the ECR, EAR, NMR, NR and EUR. Ceased to exist when it become a part of the LNER. Primarily linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich but also served much of East A...
Mary Watts
Born as Mary Seton Fraser Tytler in India but brought up in Scotland. 1886 married G. F. Watts. Co-founded the Compton Potters' Arts Guild and the Arts & Crafts Guild in Compton, Surrey. There ...
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