This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Millennium
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Blackfriars sundial
Can we guess what 'building products' Ibstock contributed, and how many? Diff...
Bromley Millennium Rock
Bromley Millennium Rock This boulder of Lewisian Gneiss from Lochinver in Nor...
Chelsea Pensioner statue
Commissioned by the Royal Hospital Chelsea to commemorate the Second Millenni...
Enfield Millennium Fountain
The Millennium Fountain by Wendy Taylor CBE. Unveiled by the Worshipful the M...
High Path Estate horse trough
There is another trough with the same inscription further west along the road.
Other Subjects
Festival of Britain
'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after WW2, and incidentally to celebrate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. The symbol for the Festival was designed ...
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II. A London Inheritance's post 2nd June 1953 – Coronation Day In London has some great photos.
Crunchy the Credit Crunch Monster
Official mascot of the global recession.
Percy Grainger
Composer and pianist, collector and arranger of folk music. Born Brighton, Melbourne, Australia. In London 1901 – 14. Very close relationship with his mother, some thought too close. Financed a...
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Chelsea Temperance Society
Founded 1837 with Sydney Hall in Pond Place. At Exciting we learn "In about 1906 they published a set of cards showing their original Sydney Hall and vacant site nearby at the southern apex of Bury...
W. Young & Son
The Young family began fishing the Thames for whitebait in 1750. In 1811 William Young married Elizabeth Martha who had been selling fish at the Greenwich quayside. They set up a fish shop and the ...
National Theatre
First proposed in 1848, the gestation of the NT is complex (see the NT's own site). The first site for the NT was acquired in 1913, immediately behind the British Museum, at the corner of Gower Str...
Watney Combe Reid
In 1837 James Watney (1800 - 84) became a partner in the Stag Brewery, Pimlico and the Watney family were the main partners there for much of the 19th century. In 1889 James Watney & Co., acqui...
Anna Brandt
Anna Iskryzinski was born on 26 March 1964 in Radomsko, Poland, the eldest of three children. Her sister Ewa Iskryzinski was born in June 1965 and her brother Pawel Iskryzinski was born in February...
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