Building    From 1760  To 1829

Tyburn Turnpike House

Categories: Commerce, Property, Transport

This toll gate is thought to have stood about where Marble Arch now stands.

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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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Francis Chappell & Sons

Francis Chappell & Sons

Funeral directors in South London and Kent. Formerly a family firm, now owned by Dignity.

Group, Commerce

2 memorials
John Cusworth

John Cusworth

British History On-line credits Cusworth with the Newby Place monument.   Mapping Sculpture provides some information. The stone masons John Cusworth & Sons was active 1825-79, at least two ge...

Person, Commerce, Craft / Design

1 memorial
W. H. Smith

W. H. Smith

William Henry Smith. Bookseller and politician. The son in "W. H. Smith and Son".  He introduced the W. H. Smith stalls at railway stations and the business thrived. Entered politics in 1868.  Appo...

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Crocketts Leather Cloth Company Ltd

Crocketts Leather Cloth Company Ltd

Odd that the monument does not use the name "Crocketts" but all the sources give that name for the Leather Cloth factory on this site. More information at London's Ghost Acres. The catalogue of th...

Group, Commerce

1 memorial
A. Yeatman & Sons

A. Yeatman & Sons

Funeral directors based in West Norwood mostly known for monumental masonry, taken over by Smiths of Southwark. The picture source website has an interesting page about the history of their busine...

Group, Benefactor, Commerce

1 memorial

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Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens

Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens

WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens

There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...

1 subject commemorated
Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister

Born in Upton, Essex. Died in Walmer, Kent. Pioneer in the use of antiseptics in surgery. The medical historian, Ruth Richardson, has an interesting piece in the Lancet reporting on how Agnes his w...

Person, Medicine

3 memorials
men and women of Guy's Hospital who died in WW2

men and women of Guy's Hospital who died in WW2

The ninety four men and women of Guy's Hospital who gave their lives during the war of 1939 - 1945.

Group, Medicine

1 memorial
F. B. Cheyney

F. B. Cheyney

Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.

Person, Emergency Services

1 memorial