This toll gate is thought to have stood about where Marble Arch now stands.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Tyburn Turnpike House
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Tyburn Stone
We could not read most of the inscription on the stone but found it at San Fr...
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John Stephen
Founder of Carnaby Street as world centre for men's fashion in the 1960s. From Glasgow. The V&A hold his archive.
District Bank
Founded as Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. Name shortened to District Bank in 1924. 1962 acquired by the National Provincial Bank but traded separately until the 1968 merger with Westminste...
Doug Mullins
A popular local personality. The following text came from the Greenwich Phantom, who would like any more information you have: Doug was the son of Bill Mullins, one of the ‘old school’ of dairymen...
Goat in Boots
Pubs History says: "This pub was called the Goat until 1725 when the name was extended to Goat in Boots. Fulham Road was previously New Brompton Road, e.g. in 1851; and earlier called Little Chelse...
Covent Garden Market
The piazza, created in 1630 by Inigo Jones for Francis the 4th Earl of Bedford, attracted stalls and hawkers so in 1670 the 5th Earl decided to formalise and profit from the situation and obtained ...
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Sir F. Paolo Tosti
W1, Mandeville Place, 12
City of Westminster Sir F. Paolo Tosti, K.C.V.O., musician, 1846 - 1916, lived in a house on this site, 1836 - 1916. Assoc. Abruzzo-Mol...
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