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
143 memorials
Gates
21 memorials
Ghost bike
32 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
27 memorials
Monument
338 memorials
Mural
94 memorials
Latest Memorials
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1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Barber Beaumont - vault stone
E1, Mile End Road, The People's Palace Foyer, Queen Mary University of London
Our transcription of this long inscription was aided by the typed Winter 1978 newsletter of the East London History Society "A Tombstone...
5 subjects commemorated
Barber Beaumont - information plaque
E1, Mile End Road, The People's Palace Foyer, Queen Mary University of London
This information plaque is giving the provenance of the immense slab of information about Beaumont to its left.
4 subjects commemorated
Barber Beaumont tomb
E1, Shandy Park
Three years before his death in 1841 Beaumont created a tomb for himself and his family in front of the chapel, “… two immense pedestals ...
1 subject commemorated
Highbury Corner traffic scheme
N7, Highbury Corner
A dull plaque, but the removal of 3 lanes of motor traffic is worth celebrating.
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Latest Subjects
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Jeremy Lloyd
Actor and screenwriter. Born John Jeremy Lloyd in Danbury, Essex. He appeared in the American comedy series 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in', and various films and other television programmes. Along w...
1 memorial
Shandy Park / East London Cemetery
Shandy Park is a green space a few blocks due south of this site. It was opened in 1837 as the East London Cemetery with its own chapel, by local landowner, John Thomas Barber Beaumont. Beaumont ar...
1 memorial
Beaumont's Philosophical Institution
Founded in Beaumont Square, Mile End, by Barber Beaumont. Initially called the Eastern Athenaeum, this was created for 'the mental and moral improvement' and benefit of local people. It included a ...
2 memorials
Barber Beaumont
Army officer, painter, philanthropist. Born John Thomas Barber and in 1812 for no known reason, he added the name of Beaumont. He specialised in historical and portrait miniatures, and displayed at...
3 memorials
Highbury Corner traffic scheme
This scheme converted a roundabout, which was unfriendly to pedestrians and people on bikes, into two-way roads and created a plaza in front of the station. This is happening at many locations all ...
1 memorial
Seriously Famous
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Lost Memorials
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Born on this day
William Henry Morris
Born: 24/12/1895, 129 years ago
Person, Benefactor, Friend / family
1 memorial
Puzzle-corner
C. F. K.
Could this be? No, surely not. Could it be.... Charles Foster Kane?Funded the erection of a water trough shortly after 1901.
1 memorial