One of the (many) supposed origins of the word 'pom' for an Englishman, is that convicts were branded with the initials of 'Prisoner of Millbank'.
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Millbank Prison - Atterbury Street
This historic bollard was presented by the City of Westminster to the Royal...
Millbank Prison - Australia
This historic bollard was presented by the City of Westminster, London, Engla...
Millbank Prison - Riverside Walk
London County Council Near this site stood Millbank prison which was opened i...
Tolpuddle Martyrs at Copenhagen Fields
Copenhagen Fields From this site on 21st April 1834 thousands marched in sup...
Tolpuddle Martyrs mural
A modern information board informs that the mural was painted by Dave Bangs i...
Other Subjects
Councillor Leonard Pearl
Leonard Pearl was born on 6 August 1908 in Mile End, London, one of at least nine children of David Pearl (1886-1919) and Rachel Pearl née Solomon (1868-1934). In the 1911 census he is shown as liv...
1 memorial
Act of Parliament - 1751-2 - licensing
"Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament of the Twenty fifth of King George the Second." This is a form of words that we have found at three 19th century places of entertainment, two physically and...
2 memorials
Arthur Cohen
Lawyer. Born in Wyndham Place, Bryanston Square, son of Benjamin Cohen and nephew of Moses Montefiore. Studied maths and became the first practising Jew to graduate from Cambridge. Admitted to Inne...
2 memorials
Charles Lyell
Born at Kinnordy House, near Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Geologist. A practicing lawyer, deliberately working all over the country so he could study the local geology. His multi-volume "Principles...
3 memorials
Sir Robert William Dibdin, JP, FRGS
Robert William Dibdin was born on 15 June 1848 in Bloomsbury, the second of the six children of the Reverend Robert William Dibdin (1805-1887) and Caroline Dibdin née Thompson (1812-1897). His pate...
1 memorial
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Aspen Gardens
W6, Great West Road
This building was opened on the 27th day of September 1948 by the Rt Hon Aneurin Bevan. P.C. M.P. Minister of Health. Mayor of Hammersmit...
1 subject commemorated,
17 creators
Chelsea Physic Garden
SW3, Royal Hospital Road, Swan Walk
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Chelsea Physic Garden was established by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London in...
5 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Lord Stanley of Preston
Politician and Keen sportsman. 16th Earl of Derby. Born London, second son of Prime Minister Lord Stanley. Governor General of Canada, 1888 - 1893. His sons became keen hockey players so he and his...
1 memorial
London Wall Garden
EC2, St Alphage Garden
A London Inheritance explains that only the lower section of wall is actually Roman. The top, brick, section is from 1477 when the City W...
2 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister: 1979 - 1990. Born Grantham. MP for Finchley: 1959 - 1992. A Marmite politician of the highest order - her death was greeted with a rare mix of immoderate panegyrics and gleeful cele...
5 memorials
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