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Swan and Hoop pub

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The pub in which John Keats, poet, was born, 1795.

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Swan and Hoop pub

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John Keats birthplace

In a house on this site, the "Swan & Hoop", John Keats, poet, was born, 1...

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Men from Whitbread & Co lost in WW1 & WW2

Men from Whitbread & Co lost in WW1 & WW2

Our picture shows the Chiswell Street brewery in the years just before WW1.

Group, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Clapham Common deep shelter

Clapham Common deep shelter

This was one of several deep shelters built under Northern Line underground stations during WW2. See The Drum for more information. The Blitz was over by the time this shelter was completed so ins...

Place, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, USA

1 memorial
Lady Isabella Somerset

Lady Isabella Somerset

President of the British Women's Temperance Association , 1890 - 1903, founded of the first industrial farm for inebriate women and set up a home for training workhouse children. Born in London as...

Person, Food & Drink, Philanthropy, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Parish pump Tooting

Parish pump Tooting

Artesian well sunk by the parish at their own expense. From the near-by pump the villagers received a supply of water at the rate of 130 gallons per minute. Known as "The Parish Pump" it was in use...

Building, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Wilson Smithett & Co Ltd

Wilson Smithett & Co Ltd

Wholesalers of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices, located at 202 Blackfriars Road (2021). The Daily Mail has an interesting 2004 article about tea tasting at the Wilson, Smithett tea brokers office, S...

Group, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial

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Tachbrook - Wren

Tachbrook - Wren

SW1, Bessborough Street

Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site.  In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...

2 subjects commemorated
St Katherine Coleman

St Katherine Coleman

EC3, St Katherine's Row

The plaque is in a very narrow section of the passageway, to the right of our picture.  The churchyard's 18th century railings and stone ...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Fireman Albert Levenson

Fireman Albert Levenson

Killed by a high explosive bomb dropped on Hindle House, Arcola Street. Husband of Rebecca Levenson, lived at Hindle House Arcola Street Hackney. National Fire Service fireman based at Station 30 ...

Person

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
W. H. Vardill

W. H. Vardill

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)

MP, brewer, slave abolitionist and social reformer. Born Essex. Entered the Brick Lane brewery Truman, Hanbury & Company in 1808, eventually taking on sole ownership. 1807 married Hannah Gurney...

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink, Race Issues, Social Welfare

3 memorials