What is London Remembers?
The aim of this website is to document all the memorials in London. That's the plaques, monuments, statues, fountains, etc, that commemorate a person, an event, a building, etc. It's an aim we don't think we will ever achieve but we will enjoy the attempt.
Memorial types
Fountain
138 memorials
Gates
21 memorials
Ghost bike
31 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
27 memorials
Monument
321 memorials
Mural
91 memorials
Latest Memorials
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Brick Lane, Brixton and Soho bombs
E1, Brick Lane, 25, Police Office
The plaque was unveiled by John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets and Mark Healey founder of Hate Crime Awareness Week.
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Marcus Garvey - Willesden Library
NW10, High Road, 95, Willesden Green Old Library Building
The bust was unveiled on Garvey's 129th birthday, and is now inside a glass case in the museum at the library, but we cannot discover who...
1 subject commemorated
Willesden Library - Shakespeare
NW10, High Road, 95, Willesden Green Old Library Building
We think that hiding below hundreds of layers of whitewash is a fine relief bust of Shakespeare. This is at the top of the pargeting (dec...
1 subject commemorated
Willesden Library - 1894
NW10, High Road, 95, Willesden Green Old Library Building
Willesden Green Library was established in 1894 following a poll of the ratepayers of Willesden.
1 subject commemorated
Susan Garth
W11, Portobello Road, 169, Red Lion Antiques Market
"Antiques market" might means a shop with multiple stalls inside selling antiques, run by different people. A date would have been helpfu...
1 subject commemorated
Latest Subjects
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John Biggs
John Robert Biggs is a Labour Co-op politician who was the directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets 2015-22.
1 memorial
Brick Lane bomb
The bomb was planted by Neo-Nazi David Copeland, who was also responsible for the attacks in Brixton (17 April) and the Admiral Duncan pub (30 April) in Soho. Brick Lane has a large Bangladeshi c...
1 memorial
Willesden Library
The newly built up Willesden area was provided with a library, completed in 1894. It was extended at the back in 1907, part funded by Andrew Carnegie. The whole back section was rebuilt with addit...
1 memorial
Iyengar Yoga
A form of Hatha Yoga in which there is a focus on the structural alignment of the physical body through the development of asanas. It aims to unite the body, mind and spirit for health and well-being.
1 memorial
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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Died on this day
Celia Johnson
Died: 25/4/1982, 42 years ago
Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio
1 memorial
Puzzle-corner
Six clasped hands and a golden ball
Under the gable is a relief showing a surreal image: three arms each with a hand at both ends, with the six hands clasped in such as way ...