A watch house was an early form of local police station but we've heard it said that this particular watch-house did at one time shelter the guards charged with preventing grave-robbing in the St Sepulchre graveyard. This is the last City of London watch-house standing.
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Watch-house in Giltspur Street
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Lieutenant Nicholas Taylor, R.N.
Nicholas Taylor was born on 28 May 1949 in Lynton, Devon, the eldest of the three children of Henry Thomas Taylor (1913-1992) and Edith Peggy Taylor née Colvin (1921-1990). His birth was registered...
War dead, Other war
2 memorials
Sir John Milbanke, VC
Born in London as John Peniston Milbanke, the son of the 9th baronet and so later became the 10th baronet. Awarded the VC for his bravery in the Second Boer War when just 27. Killed in action in Tu...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Imperial Camel Corps
Formed in 1916. At its height there were 4,150 men and 4,800 camels. 3 of the 4 battalions were disbanded in mid-1918. The 2nd Battalion was disbanded in May 1919.
Group, Armed Forces, Animals, Australia, Egypt, India, Israel/Palestine, New Zealand
1 memorial
Major General Clifford Coffin, VC, CB, DSO & Bar
Born in Blackheath. On 31st July 1917, he was 47 years old and a temporary brigadier general in the Corps of Royal Engineers where he was commanding the 25th Infantry Brigade in Westhoek, Belgium. ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
William Carlos
Royalist officer of the English Civil War who saved the king. Spelling variants of his original surname include Careless, Carelesse, Carless, Carles and Carlis. This page will call him William. Fo...
1 memorial
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Sydney Smirke
Architect. Born London, younger brother to Robert. London works include: Carlton Club Pall Mall, Dome Chapel in what is now the Imperial War Museum, Reading Room in the British Museum, exhibition ...
1 memorial
Margaret Roper
Daughter of Sir Thomas More. After her executed father’s parboiled head had been displayed on a pike at London bridge for the required month, she bribed the keeper to give it to her. She pickled it...
2 memorials
Stoke Newington Manor House
The photograph appears under Stoke Newington Manor House on the Hackney Plaques and Local History website. There is no further explanation. Maybe it shows excavations at the site.
1 memorial
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
In 1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (descended from the Royal House of Scotland) married Prince Albert, Duke of York, the man who would become George VI when his elder brother Edward VIII abdicated. ...
35 memorials
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