This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sherlock Holmes Society
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Holmes & Watson - Criterion
Here, New Years Day, 1881, at the Criterion Long Bar, Stamford, dresser at Ba...
Sherlock Holmes statue
{On the plinth - front:} The great detective. {On the plinth - left:} This...
Other Subjects
Mrs Hester Thrale (Piozzi)
Writer and good friend to Samuel Johnson. Born near Bwlheli, Caernarvonshire, as Hester Salusbury. In 1763 was married for money to Henry Thrale, a wealthy London brewer. An unhappy marriage, with ...
Charles Morgan
Playwright, novelist and critic. Born Bromley, Kent, son of the engineer Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan. Died at the house with the plaque.
Homer
Ancient Greek poet. Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, which date from somewhere in the range 9th - 7th century BC.
Jerome K. Jerome
Novelist and playwright. Born Jerome Clapp Jerome at Bradford Street, Walsall, Staffordshire. He supposedly changed his middle name to Klapka in homage to General George Klapka, a hero of the Hunga...
Bruce Bairnsfather
Cartoonist. WW1 artist. Born Muree, India. He was serving on the western front at the time of the Christmas Truce of 1914 and drew and wrote about it. An article in the Malvern Gazette 21/9/11, pro...
Person, Art, Literature, France, India
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Smithfield - Poultry Market opening
EC1, East Poultry Avenue
What is it with granite plaques? Surely by 1963 someone ought to have learnt, from all the Victorian ones, that they are practicably ill...
Loughton Town Council
An Urban District Council from 1900 to 1933. It became part of Chigwell Urban District until 1974, when Epping Forest District Council was created. Loughton Town Council was established in 1996.
Dr. Dennis Geffen
O.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras, 1844 - 1959. Worked in the polio field.
Police bricks
EC1, Myddelton Passage
Brought to our attention by View from the Mirror which has a very good, thorough post about these strange bricks. The graffiti is appare...