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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Simpson
Commemorated ati
PP - 4J - Simpson
Thomas Simpson died of exhaustion after saving many lives from the breaking i...
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1 memorial
1 memorial
Glenton Powell
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Glenton Anthony Powell was born on 19 January 1965 and died, aged 16 years, on 25 January 1981 as a result of injuries sustained in a fir...
2 memorials
1 memorial
1 memorial
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V1 and V2 rockets
The V1 and V2 rockets were developed as a reaction to the heavy allied bombing of German cities towards the end of WW2. (V stands for Vergeltungswaffe - retribution weapon'). In total, over 3,000 V...
28 memorials
Joseph Priestley - E5
E5, Lower Clapton Road, 113, 117
The house was demolished in 1880 and we have failed to find a picture of it. At the time this section of street may have been called Cla...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Nicholson's pubs
The Nicholson's brothers opened their first pub in 1873.
1 memorial
Michael Minh Matsushita
Michael Minh Matsushita was born on 25 May 1968 in Vietnam, the son of a South Vietnamese soldier killed in the conflict when he was just five months old. At the age of three, he and his mother, Mu...
3 memorials
Captain Cook - E1 plaque - gone
E1, Mile End Road, 88
This terracotta-coloured plaque is now in Australia (see eHive) with one of the chimney pots. See Captain Cook's house for information an...
2 subjects commemorated
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