This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Queen Mary College
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Barber Beaumont - information plaque
This information plaque is giving the provenance of the immense slab of infor...
People's Palace
The plaque names only 6 relief panels but there are 7, music being represente...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Queen Mary College
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Clement Attlee statue
It's rather disconcerting that the plaque refers to "Queen Mary College" as "...
King Leopold II of Belgium
Foundation stone of this library was laid by His Majesty Leopold II King of t...
Other Subjects
Charity scholars
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a ...
Grey Coat Hospital / Grey Coat School
From the school's website: "In 1666, after the Great Fire of London, many inhabitants of the Old City of London moved to the medieval town of Westminster. With its congested and squalid alleys, the...
Rose Mary Crawshay
Philanthropist, feminist, educationist. Born Rose Mary Yeates in Horton, Buckinghamshire, to William Willson Yeates and his first wife Mary. When she was seven three of her baby sisters died in qui...
WW2 service men and women who trained in Walthamstow college
Thousands of service men and women trained at the Walthamstow college: 1940 RAF; 1941 army; 1942 navy.
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Stoke Newington Literary Festival
From their website in 2022: "Since 2010, we’ve been celebrating the area’s radical and literary history with a festival that’s become one of the most eclectic, diverse and, frankly, FUN in the lite...
The Crown Estate
Some of these plaques have an 'R' representing Regent Street which was (2024 defunct) a Crown Estate website promoting Regent Street as a shopping destination. Wikipedia had (2025: the map is no ...
Anti-Slavery Society
First founded in Britain in 1823 as the 'Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions'. When slavery was abolished in British dominions the Society w...
City Pest House
EC1, Bath Street
Historic Site City Pesthouse. Built here in open fields 1593. Used during the Great Plague 1665. Demolished 1736. London Borough of ...
Deptford Friends' Meeting House
It is believed that William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, also worshipped at this Quaker house. Demolished 1807.
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