Lisa Pontecorvo, 1944 - 2008, beloved friend of Edward Square.
N1, Edward Square
Across the other side of the garden there is a poem about the square by Andrew Motion carved such that it is as much a sculpture as a poem. Text and picture here.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lisa Pontecorvo stone
Much of the street research for LondonRemembers is done by bike. 820 cyclists...
Killed at the junction of Madras Place and Holloway Road. Run over by a cemen...
Londonist tells us that there are other such lumps of Lewisian Gneiss around Bromley all transported from Scotland to mark the Millennium...
"The death" to which this inscription refers is Nelson's, so the gift was made on 21 October 1905 though the gardens were not opened unti...
Unveiled by Sir Michael Tippett who was President of the Peace Pledge Union at the time.
We could not read most of the inscription on the stone but found it at San Francisco Call, Volume 105, Number 173, 22 May 1909 at cdnc. ...
The pale plaque between the two dark ones carries some near-illegible etchings showing bridges.
Actor. Born in Dublin. During WW2 he served in the parachute regiment, and was one of the first to land in Normandy during Operation Overlord. He took up acting after the war, and one of his early ...
Trumpet and flugelhorn player. Born Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler in Toronto. He moved to Britain in 1952. He made his name playing in groups with Ronnie Scott, John Dankworth and Tubby Hayes. He wa...
