Architect and prolific writer of church hymns (nearly 2000!). Born Wapping. Died Homerton where he was a church warden at St. Barnabas.
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James Edmeston
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Charity drinking fountain, La Maternité
'Wardmote' just means a meeting where decisions are made.
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Basil Champneys
Architect. Born Whitechapel. Died at home at 42 Frognal Lane, Hampstead. Works include: Newnham College, Cambridge.
1 memorial
Charles Fitzroy Doll
From 1885 until at least 1908 he was the Bedford Estate surveyor. Specialised in designing hotels, such as Hotel Russell. Other London work includes: Imperial Hotel next to Hotel Russell (demolishe...
2 memorials
1 memorial
Hughes Mansions
Flats built in honour of Judge Thomas Hughes. On 27 March 1945 part of the building was destroyed by the last V2 rocket to hit London (another one fell on Orpington, Kent on the same date), killing...
2 memorials
H. L. Florence
Architect, Born Henry Louis Florence. 1875 he is credited with Stourbridge & Kidderminster Bank in Worcester. In 1871 he began a partnership with Lewis H. Isaacs. Information mainly from Scotti...
1 memorial
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W. H. Hudson Memorial
W2, Hyde Park - Meadow Wildlife
The sculpture represents Rima, the nature-spirit heroine of Hudson's book "Green Mansions". It caused quite a stir at the time, from the ...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Dr Frank Bennett
NW6, Kilburn High Road, Brondesbury Medical Centre
The plaque, as well as having rather peculiar punctuation gets the year of death wrong but only by 2 days, so understandable.
1 subject commemorated
Hackney Council
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington, all three of which had been created in 1900. Previously they had been paris...
58 memorials
1 subject commemorated
Samuel Palmer
W8, Douro Place, 6
Samuel Palmer, 1805 - 1881, artist, lived here, 1851 - 1861. Greater London Council
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator