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Sherlock Holmes Society

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Sherlock Holmes Society

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Holmes & Watson - Criterion

Here, New Years Day, 1881, at the Criterion Long Bar, Stamford, dresser at Ba...

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Sherlock Holmes statue

{On the plinth - front:} The great detective. {On the plinth - left:} This...

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The Langham Hotel

The plaque was unveiled by the writer and former MP Gyles Brandreth.

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Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in what is now Lebanon, emigrated as a young man with his family to US. Best known for The Prophet, 1923, popular in the 60s.

Person, Art, Literature, Poetry, Lebanon, USA

1 memorial
Ernest Raymond

Ernest Raymond

Novelist, author of more than fifty books included We the Accused.

Person, Literature

1 memorial
Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Humourist and writer. Born in Shepherd's Bush, he invented the verse form which took his middle name (his mother's maiden name), and is a four-line nonsense poem about a famous person; an example b...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Poetry

2 memorials
Hilda Doolittle

Hilda Doolittle

Poet and writer. Born Pennsylvania, moved to London in 1911 as an Imagist poet.  Her work was often infused with Greek mythology and she had a particular interest in the poetry of Sappho.  Spent mu...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Switzerland, USA

1 memorial
Joaquim Nabuco

Joaquim Nabuco

Writer and statesman. Born Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo in Recife, Brazil. In 1878 he began to fight against slavery through his political activity and writings. It was eventually aboli...

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Brazil, USA

1 memorial

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Floods

Floods

SE18, Unity Way, Thames Barrier cafe

Commemorating the devastating floods of January 31st 1953. In memory of more than 2,100 lives lost in countries around the North Sea. T...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Marian Leigh

Marian Leigh

Andrew Behan has researched this lady and discovered the following: Born about 1837 as Marian Prescott in Manchester, the daughter of Cyril and Marian Prescott. Her father was a solicitor. 12 Sept...

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial
George Moore

George Moore

SW1, Ebury Street, 121

Moore moved to Ebury Street in 1911.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Ben Nicholson

Ben Nicholson

Artist. Born Denham, Buckinghamshire. Father was Sir William Nicholson, painter. Married to sculptor, Barbara Hepworth, 1938 -51. They were central to a number of groups of avant-garde artists bas...

Person, Art, Switzerland

1 memorial
Mrs S. F. Kirby

Mrs S. F. Kirby

A pdf from RBKC tells us that SFK is "Mrs Kirby, who sponsored nine other drinking fountains in London".

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial