The church seems to have occupied a site between St Martin's-le-Grand and Foster Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire its ruins were, amazingly, not removed until the early 1800s.
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St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand
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St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand
Site of St Leonard’s Church, destroyed in the Great Fire, 1666. The Corporati...
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London Charterhouse
Carthusian priory, founded by Sir Walter Manny and Bishop Michael Northburg of London. Inhabited by 25 monks. The priory was suppressed in 1538 (re: Dissolution of the Monesteries) and the land pas...
2 memorials
T. Burnitt
The Caladonian Road plaque probably refers to the Thomas Burnitt mentioned as a speaker at a meeting following the laying of the foundation stone, on 18 May 1865, for the new Camden Town Primitive ...
1 memorial
Rev. Allen T. Edwards
1835 vicar of All Saints South Lambeth. In the 1910 "A history of the British and Foreign Bible Society" by William Canton, Edwards is named as the District Secretary for "Middlesex and places wit...
1 memorial
St Michael Paternoster Royal
Destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren, badly damaged in WW2, restored 1968. Its name is explained by its location which used to be on/near two streets: Paternoster Lane, now College Hill, an...
1 memorial
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Captain Robert Scott
Born Devonport. Royal Navy Antarctic explorer. With four companions, E.A. Wilson, H.R. Bowers, L.E.G. Oates, E. Evans, died returning from the South Pole, having been pipped at the post by Amundsen...
4 memorials
Paddington Bear - plaque and book seat
W2, Paddington Station, Platform 1
The seat below the plaque is in the form of a book with the Bear himself painted on one side so you can sit beside him. We wonder how man...
2 subjects commemorated
Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St Albans
Illegitimate son of Nell Gwynne and Charles II. Born at his mother's house in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Served the monarch as a soldier in a number of battles. Died at Bath.
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Gerry Paul Francis
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Gerry Paul Francis was born on 21 August 1963 in Lewisham, the son of George P. Francis and Rosilia Y. Francis née Titre. He died, aged 1...
2 memorials
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