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Twinning

Categories: Commerce, Food & Drink

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Twinning

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Twinned with Amsterdam

The two stations are at either end of the Dutchflyer rail-ferry service, via ...

twinning with Clichy

This estate is called Clichy to mark the link established in 1957 between the...

West Berlin street lamp - current plaque

Hammersmith & Fulham has been twinned with Neukolln (a borough of West Be...

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May Fair

The annual 15 day May Fair used to be held at the Haymarket but in 1686 it moved to the site of Curzon Street and Shepherd Market. About 100 years later it was suppressed by the local residents, ...

Event, Commerce

1 memorial

Whitecross Street Market

One of London's oldest markets. Started trading in 17th century and was known locally as "Squalors Market". This information, on the plaque, comes from Wikipedia. We can't add to it.

Place, Commerce

1 memorial

A wealthy, early member of the Burns Club of London (founded 1868). Undiscovered Dundee by Brian King informs: "... retired Glasgow merchant, who had lived in London for many years, had met the cos...

Person, Benefactor, Commerce

1 memorial

Old Spitalfields Market

1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Spittle Fields. The market lapsed during the Commonwealth but it was re-founded in 1682 by King Charles II. The existing ...

Building, Commerce

3 memorials

Sun Public House

This pub was destroyed in a WW2 air raid shortly before closing time on 25th September 1940. The plaque says that 20 people were killed; Pubwiki puts the number at 16. The site stood empty for many...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

1 memorial

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Jim Veal

Chairman of the Tenants & Residents Association which campaigned for the redevelopment of the Caledonian Market Estate and the creation (from 2005) of new homes for the local community.

Person, Community / Clubs, Social Welfare

1 memorial

Ben Okri

Poet and novelist. Born Nigeria but spent his early childhood in London. Returned to England to study in the late 1970s. His 1991 novel 'The Famished Road' won the Booker Prize.

Person, Literature, Poetry, Nigeria

1 memorial

M. Marsh

Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1

1 memorial

A. Baker

Person

War dead, WW1

1 memorial

Spock

From Fandom: Spock – full name generally considered unpronounceable by Humans – was a male Human/Vulcan hybrid who became one of the most distinguished and respected figures in the United Federat...

Fiction, Cinema, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio

1 memorial