SKDocks gives a brief introduction to the history of the area. A London Inheritance have done their usual thorough job with lots of images.
In the 1976 film To the Devil a Daughter Richard Widmark's character has a flat here so you see inside a converted warehouse. Also, during a chase, Widmark gets to operate the retractable Telford Bridge, which is quite slow-going but he still catches the run-away. This was replaced in 1994 so the one on film is earlier, possibly the original?
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
St Katharine Docks
The Tea Trade at St Katharine Docks This plaque commemorates 335 years of th...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
St Katharine Docks
This inscription is on a large slate stone positioned in the ground at the en...
The information states that the sculpting was done "on this site", but the Co...
2014: We've corrected the British Engineerium Trust web address on the panel ...
By 1608 this street was known as Peticote Lane for the second-hand clothes, etc. which were bought and sold here, right on the boundary with the City. In about 1830 the street name was changed to M...
Londonist have an interesting post about animals at the Bank of England. The Guardian, 16 April 2022, reporting on an exhibition at the Bank of England, informed that the Bank once owned 599 slave...
Founded Foyles Bookshop in 1903. Born Shoreditch, the 7th child of a 7th child of a 7th child. William and brother Gilbert opened their first bookshop in Islington, moved to Peckham and then Ceci...
WW2 spy and member of the French resistance. A descendant of the 18th century south Indian ruler Tipu Sultan, Khan was a follower of the Sufi faith and believed in non-violence. Born Moscow to pa...
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 11. Buried in grave 4 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
The Town Hall in Euston Road once housed these interesting murals by Cecil Osborne.
Musician. Born Peter Alexander Greenlaw Kinnies in Tavistock, Devon. His mother became pregnant after an affair with an American serviceman. She married after the war and the whole family took her ...
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