Wish we knew who those generous and rather self-important people were.
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the principal inhabitants of Tooting in 1823
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Parish pump Tooting
{On a modern brass plaque attached to the monument:} This monument, erected ...
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. London...
38 memorials
James Thomas
Architect who works close to the site of Min Joo Lee's death, and regularly cycles through the junction. He worked with the local cycle shop, Cyclesurgery, to produce the ghost bike and organised ...
1 memorial
Robert Trotter
Initially we could find nothing about Trotter but shortly after publishing the Clapham trough we were contacted by Andrew Behan who told us about a Trotter fountain in Fulham with, crucially, his d...
2 memorials
1 memorial
Sir Charles James Freake
Architect, builder and patron of the arts.
1 memorial
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David Bowie
Musician and actor. Born David Robert Jones 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton. The family left here when David was 6 and moved to Plaistow Grove, Bromley. David changed his surname to avoid confusion wi...
Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
7 memorials
V&A façade - Wren
SW7, Cromwell Road
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
1 memorial
Keats statue at Guy's Hospital
SE1, Great Maze Pond, Guy's Hospital - the Colonnade
Unveiled by Andrew Motion, author of a Keats biography. The quotation comes from Keats’ epic poem "Fall of Hyperion. A Dream", 1819.
1 subject commemorated,
6 creators
J. Buteux Skeggs
Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: James Buteux Skeggs was born in 1860 in Shoreditch, the son of James William Skeggs and Sarah Ann Skeggs née Buteux. His father was a ...
1 memorial
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