Leigh Hunt - N14 - birth
Robert Ryder VC
Bankers Clearing House - 5
Hugh Price Hughes
Caxton Hall - foundation stone
Karl Marx - W1
Plinth for lost sculpture
Dockers statue - Patrick Holland

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

Bust

Bust

356 memorials

Fountain

Fountain

144 memorials

Gates

Gates

21 memorials

Ghost bike

Ghost bike

32 memorials

Ghost building

Ghost building

9 memorials

Keystone

Keystone

27 memorials

Monument

Monument

338 memorials

Mural

Mural

97 memorials

Latest Memorials

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Norma Williamson

Norma Williamson

SW9, Rushcroft Road, Tate Library

This small plaque is on the planter which can be seen in our photo, below the "Brixton Library" sign. We thank our colleague, Alan Patien...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Sir William Powell's Almshouses

Sir William Powell's Almshouses

SW6, Church Gate

Founded in 1680 by Sir William Powell to house twelve widows. Rebuilt in 1793, and again in 1869. Residency is still reserved for older w...

1 subject commemorated
Madge Gill - plaque

Madge Gill - plaque

E17, Walthamstow High Street, 71

Madge Gill, née Maud Eades, artist (1882 - 1961) lived here between 1882 - 1890. Waltham Forest Heritage

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Madge Gill - mural

Madge Gill - mural

E17, High Street Walthamstow, 121

  {On an accompanying information board:} LDN WMN Madge Gill by Pang LDN WMN is a series of free public artworks across London this a...

1 subject commemorated, 4 creators
Victor mosaic

Victor mosaic

SW1, Carteret Street

Ian Visits corrected the wide-spread miss-attribution of this advertisement to the Victor Talking Machine Company.  He has, correctly we'...

1 subject commemorated

Latest Subjects

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Brixton Society

Brixton Society

From their website: "We help shape the future of Brixton by working to understand our history and built environment. To do this we hold regular meetings, lead heritage walks, and produce publicatio...

Group, Community / Clubs, History

1 memorial
Tate Galleries

Tate Galleries

Four art galleries. The original was founded in Millbank in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art. It was renamed in 1932 after Henry Tate who had laid the foundations for the collection. Ta...

Group, Art, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial
Wood Street Walls

Wood Street Walls

Group which produces street artwork in various formats.

Group, Art, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Lazer Group

Lazer Group

Property group founded in the 1980s.

Group, Property

1 memorial
Madge Gill

Madge Gill

Artist. Born in a flat at the site of the plaque as Maude Ethel Eades. Being illegitimate she was an embarrassment to her family, who sent her to a Dr Barnado's orphanage. She later went to Canada ...

Person, Art, Paranormal, Canada

2 memorials

Seriously Famous

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Napoleon Bonaparte
Alfred Hitchcock
Geoffrey Chaucer
Celia Johnson
Felix Mendelssohn
Benjamin Britten

Lost and Relocated Memorials

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Barber Beaumont tomb
George Jeffreys
Plaque to Milton erected by Bentham
Streatham Bus Garage - WW1 plaque
Organ donors
J. Lyons war memorial - second location, gone

Died on this day

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Died: 3/4/1682, 343 years ago

Person, Art, Spain

2 memorials
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Puzzle-corner

Grosvenor Hotel - head 01

This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...

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