London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London

Church Street pavement plaque - 1808 - church

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

371 memorials

Fountain

148 memorials

Gates

21 memorials

Ghost bike

32 memorials

Ghost building

9 memorials

Keystone

27 memorials

Monument

340 memorials

Mural

100 memorials

Latest Memorials

Kidderpore Hall

NW3, Kidderpore Avenue

The Kidderpore Hall plaque is in the road-facing porch of the splendid white building. The Bay House plaque is on the red brick building ...

2 subjects commemorated

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Bay House

NW3, Kidderpore Avenue

The Kidderpore Hall plaque is in the road-facing porch of the splendid white building. The Bay House plaque is on the red brick building ...

2 subjects commemorated

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley

NW6, Lymington Road, 28

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875 - 1956) author, journalist and originator of the 'Clerihew', lived here 1911 - 1927.

1 subject commemorated

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Bolingbroke Hospital - 1901

SW11, Wakehurst Road

This is the 1901 Victoria Memorial wing of Bolingbroke Hospital. It was built to house the Out-Patients Department and was named for the ...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

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Bolingbroke Hospital - 1925

SW11, Bolingbroke Grove

The foundation stone is directly below the Shepherd memorial. Both can be seen to the right of our photo, on the stair tower, partially h...

4 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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Latest Subjects

Kidderpore Hall

From Knight Frank: "By 1843 ... Built that year, Kidderpore Hall was the home of the powerful merchant John Teil, an East India trader with vast tanneries in the Kidderpore district of Calcutta. Th...

Building, Education, Property

1 memorial

Bay House

Chronology of Westfield College gives "1922 The Bay was completed, (on a site formerly occupied by the Conservatory, that had been demolished in 1914). It was used to house a domestic block contain...

Building, Education, Property

1 memorial

Sir James Carmichael

Owned the building firm James Carmichael Ltd in Trinity Road Wandsworth Common. Director-General of Housing in England and Wales. He was a generous benefactor and in his lifetime gifted £40k to th...

Person, Benefactor, Property

1 memorial

Reverend Canon John Erskine Clarke

Clergyman. He issued the first parish magazine and established several other religious publications. Responsible for founding churches, schools and hospitals in Battersea. Born in India to an offi...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Religion, India, Scotland

1 memorial

Bolingbroke Hospital

Instigated by Canon John Erskine Clarke, Bolingbroke House (see below for more information) was acquired and opened in 1880 as Bolingbroke Self-Supporting Hospital and House in Sickness. The buildi...

Group, Medicine

5 memorials

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