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Red Lion House

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Spitalfields Life, our picture source, says: "Becoming the Red Lion Tavern after his {Culpeper's} death, the building was demolished in the eighteen-forties as part of road widening when Commercial St was cut through to carry traffic from the docks." And has a map showing the streets at the time and other information about the house.

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Red Lion House

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Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper (1616 - 1654) physician, herbalist, astrologer and writer, ...

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H. Johnson & Co

H. Johnson & Co

Terracotta manufacturers based in Ditchling, Sussex.  Made the Stratford Martyrs memorial.  From Tile Gazetteer - Newham: "Johnson’s, who were active from the 1870s, made terracotta, bricks, tile...

Group, Property

1 memorial
Althorp Lodge

Althorp Lodge

In this building Robert Sadler opened a pub and leisure gardens. In 1853, using the land behind the pub, he opened the Copenhagen Running Grounds. "The ground eventually closed in 1864 following c...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Property

1 memorial
John Elger

John Elger

Architect, master builder and speculative developer. Active in London and Bedford.  From British History: "... a Bedford carpenter's son who had made his name in the 1820s and '30s as a speculative...

Person, Architecture, Property

1 memorial
289 Cambridge Heath Road

289 Cambridge Heath Road

The house was probably built 1800 - 1850 and was occupied from at least 1866 until his death in 1882, by Dr Brotherton. He lived there and also ran his medical practice from that address. It was de...

Building, Medicine, Property

1 memorial
Kidderpore Hall

Kidderpore Hall

From Knight Frank: "By 1843 ... Built that year, Kidderpore Hall was the home of the powerful merchant John Teil, an East India trader with vast tanneries in the Kidderpore district of Calcutta. Th...

Building, Education, Property

1 memorial

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The North Star

The North Star

NW3, Finchley Road, 104

The North Star, 104 Finchley Road. The North Star was built in 1850 as one of the first buildings to grace the new Finchley Road. This hi...

2 subjects commemorated
6 Burlington Gardens - Plato

6 Burlington Gardens - Plato

W1, Burlington Gardens, 6

There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
F. G. Malin

F. G. Malin

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Andy Holmes

Andy Holmes

Rower. Born Andrew Jeremy Holmes in Uxbridge. Educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith. He rowed for the Kingston and Leander rowing clubs. At the 1984 and 1988 Olympic games, he rowed with Si...

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial