SE16, Spa Road, Old Bermondsey Library / Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre
The busts are on the keystones of the library first floor window arches, numbered left to right. Ornamental Passions has posted about this building and also fails to identify number 5. The building was designed in 1890-2 by John Johnson and opened by John Lubbock. The library closed in 1989.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 4 - Milton
Poet, essayist, playwright, historian, and diplomat. Born in the house called...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 4 - Milton
We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon i...
The weather has removed all the hair and costume details which are essential ...
This public library was erected 1890-1. Commissioners: A. Lafone, MP - Chairm...
This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...
Built in 1892 by Charles Henman Jr. this heavily decorated complex of buildings makes up Croydon's Town Hall. The building and the rounde...
The weather has removed all the hair and costume details which are essential for any chance of identifying the person represented. Chauc...
Unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh.
c.2012: Brought to our attention by Clive Yelf on his always interesting blog, Faded London which seems to have folded. Wanting to establ...
This Anchor Brewhouse is nothing to do with the Anchor Brewery at Park Street.
London County Council John Robert Godley, 1814 - 1861, founder of Canterbury, New Zealand, lived and died here.
The plaque on the brick wall in the picture reads: The BBC Star Terrace, "Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love" Sylvie Dee. De...
Film director. Born Paris to an anarchist father. Vigo's two important films are Zero for Conduct (1933) and L'Atalante (1934). Vigo's anarchism is discussed at Libcom. Died Paris.
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
