Fiction    From 25/11/1952 

The Mousetrap

Categories: Fictional, Theatre

The world's longest running play - still going in 2013. Written by Agatha Christie who gave the rights to her grandson.  We've heard the butler did it.

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The Mousetrap

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Agatha Christie book

Unveiled on the 60th anniversary of The Mousetrap, this bronze, 2.5 m high 'b...

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The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap The world's longest running play had its 50th anniversary perf...

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3 memorials
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1 memorial
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Two of Charles Dickens characters from Dombey and Son (1848).

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1 memorial
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Fiction, Fictional

1 memorial
Blithe Spirit

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Fiction, Cinema, Fictional, Theatre

1 memorial

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers

WC1, Great James Street, 23-24

Unveiled by P.D. James in August 2000.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Nigel Bruce Thompson

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Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
E. J. Aley

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J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Anti-fascists in Bermondsey

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One day before the anniversary of the Cable Street battle Mosley's Fascists, now banned from the East End and prevented from wearing uniforms, attempted to march through Bermondsey.  20,000 people ...

Event, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
John Lyon School

John Lyon School

Independent boys' school in Harrow. John Lyon (1514-92) was a significant landowner, who by 1564 had the largest land-rental income in Harrow. He  founded Harrow School, The John Lyon School, and ...

Place, Education

1 memorial