Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England and founder of Winchester College. Reconstructed Windsor Castle for King Edward III. Click on external site for more information. And see Winchester geese for the seamier side of the bishopric.
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Alan Brace
Architect active 1927 and 1937. An Alan Brace was the architect for Rio Tinto Company Limited and carried out work for them in south west Spain, though if this was in the late 1800s, then he was ei...
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Frederick Atkinson Powell
Architect. Mayor of Lambeth 1905-6 and 1906-7. Died at home at 344 Kennington Road.
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John Sulman
Architect. Born in Greenwich. Articled to Thomas Allom. Emigrated to Sydney in 1885 on account of his wife's tuberculosis, but she was to die just 3 years later. 1921-4 he was chairman of the Feder...
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Harryram Rambissoon
We are grateful to Rambissoon’s daughter, Meera, who told us that her father designed the plaque. She writes: “He was an architect for London Underground. He was passionate about design and transpo...
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Sir Ebenezer Howard
Founder of the garden city movement. Born 62 Fore Street. Travelled to America in 1871 where he tried farming and was in Chicago at the time that it was being rebuilt after a great fire. The new su...
1 memorial
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Irene Handl
Comedy actor. Born 13 Leith Mansions, Paddington and grew up in St John's Wood. Began acting in her mid thirties and was almost never out of work, giving cameo performances in many British films ...
2 memorials
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Born 70 Parson Street, Glasgow. Architect, designer and watercolourist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. Married Margare...
1 memorial
Hoxton Market Christian Mission
Founded by John and Lewis Burtt. Described by Charles Booth as a "soup kitchen and refuge for the poor". Janet Seale wrote to us in 2013: "I used to attend Sunday School at Hoxton Market Christian ...
1 memorial
Sid Towner
Site superintendent at the Brunswick 1972 onwards. Died sometime before September 2008. 2016, via Faecbook Freddie O. Wales sent this tribute: Sid Towner was the centre manager at the Brunswick Ce...
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Southwark Council
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark, Camberwell and Bermondsey. Southwark council annually invites proposals for new plaques fro...
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