Dalston Methodist Church
Hampden Bomber P4399 crash
Columbia Market gate posts
Frieze of Parnassus - Milton
Mary Tourtel
Norwood Grove bird bath - plaque
Marc Bolan - N16
Evelyn Baring

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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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
William Lovely

William Lovely

W12, Askew Road, 1

A rejected planning application provides some history for the house: "The building dates from pre-1860 and would have formed part of the ...

1 subject commemorated

Latest Subjects

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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
Victor Tyre Company

Victor Tyre Company

See Ian Visits for the history of this short-lived company and an advertisement with the same image as the mosaic. Our advertisement, from Grace's Guide - a magnificent resource, shows a different ...

Group, Commerce, Transport

1 memorial

Seriously Famous

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Napoleon Bonaparte
The Shadows
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH, DBE.
King Edward VII
John Wesley
Pocahontas

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

Samuel Morse

Died: 2/4/1872, 153 years ago

Person, Art, Science, France, Italy, Switzerland, USA

1 memorial
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Puzzle-corner

Sanctuary - head on right - Albert

The building is Grade II listed, a terrace of Bath stone buildings incorporating gateway to Dean's Yard. 1853-54 by Sir George Gilbert Sc...

Bust,
1 subject
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