One of the two sources of the Tyburn river, the other being in the grounds of Belsize Manor (now the area called Belsize Park). The picture shows the well in 1820. In 1878 Edward Walford wrote " There used to be an arch over the conduit, and rails stood round it; but since Hampstead has been supplied by the New River Company the conduit has become neglected, and the spring is now only a small and dirty swamp."
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Shepherd's Well
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Shepherd's Well
For the good of the public this fountain is erected near the site of an ancie...
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John Lawson Johnston
Nutrition promoter and food manufacturer. Born at 29 Main Street, Roslin, Midlothian. He took over his uncle's butcher shop and decided to use the large quantity of beef trimmings produced to make ...
1 memorial
Admiral Duncan pub bombing
Well known as a gay pub, the Admiral Duncan was the site chosen by Neo-Nazi David Copeland to detonate a nail bomb which killed three people and wounded 70. Copeland, who was also responsible for ...
Event, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Gender Issues, Terrorism, Tragedy
3 memorials
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association - 50th anniversary
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.
1 memorial
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association - 80th anniversary
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.
2 memorials
Pasqua Rosee's Head
First London coffee house, opened by Pasqua Rosée. The Telegraph produced a good article about coffee houses in London.
1 memorial
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Blind Veterans UK
W2, Bayswater Road, 150, DoubleTree Hilton Hyde Park hotel
The rather oddly-placed plaque is only visible from the side street, St Petersburgh Place. Trying to locate an image of the building tha...
1 subject commemorated
Henry Hugh Armstead
Sculptor and illustrator. Born Bloomsbury. Executed a large number of public statues and funerary works, and worked closely with George Gilbert Scott on the Albert Memorial. Died at home 52 Circus ...
68 memorials
Mrs E. S. Whelpton
Active in 1889. We think she may have been the wife of Dr Edward S. Whelpton who may have been in about 1876 a (co-)founder of the Emmanuel Football Club of Cambridge.
1 memorial
Arthur Clive Heward Bell
Known professionally as Clive Bell, he was an art critic and writer who married Vanessa Stephen, sister of Virginia Woolf. His Wikipedia page gives much information about this man. Additionally we...
2 memorials
Fusilier W. G. Heron
Killed while serving with the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) in the Korean War, July 1952 to August 1953.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
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