Braeside - war hospital
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Croydon home
Norwood fountain - Winter
Hoxton war memorial
Sir Bradley Wiggins - St Augustine’s Sport Centre
Willesden Boer War memorial
Lampern
Sick Children's Trust - WC1

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

367 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

339 memorials

Mural

Mural

99 memorials

Latest Memorials

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Listed building - EC3

Listed building - EC3

EC3, Idol Lane, 9

See Listed Building - SW14 for other similar plaques.

Farm Lane - Number 72

Farm Lane - Number 72

SW6, Farm Lane, 72

72 Farm Lane This building was constructed over market gardens in 1889 as two-storey stabling for the London Road Car Company, operators ...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
A1 - Rubens

A1 - Rubens

W2, Westbourne Grove, 26, HBA

The Bayswater Athenaeum was built in 1863 by architect Arthur Billing of Newman and Billing. The name was originally inscribed in the pan...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
C2 - Shakespeare

C2 - Shakespeare

W2, Westbourne Grove, 26, HBA

The Bayswater Athenaeum was built in 1863 by architect Arthur Billing of Newman and Billing. The name was originally inscribed in the pan...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
C3 - Bacon

C3 - Bacon

W2, Westbourne Grove, 26, HBA

The Bayswater Athenaeum was built in 1863 by architect Arthur Billing of Newman and Billing. The name was originally inscribed in the pan...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

Latest Subjects

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London Road Car Company

London Road Car Company

Former public transport company. It eventually amalgamated with the London General Omnibus Company and Vanguard Motorbus Company. Maps are normally very helpful with buildings like this but this b...

Group, Transport

1 memorial
Emma Douglas

Emma Douglas

Emma Cathleen Douglas is an artist. From The Richardson Collection: Daughter of David Harrington Angus Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, and Ann Jones. With her husband, Damon Lewis Vincent H...

Person, Art

1 memorial
Phileas Fogg

Phileas Fogg

Phileas Fogg is the fictional hero of Jules Verne's 'Around the World in Eighty Days'.  Without reading the novel we can't confirm the middle 'J'. Inception run a chain of 'Fogg' themed establishm...

Fiction, Exploring, Fictional

2 memorials
Bloomsbury/Ridgmount Petrol Station

Bloomsbury/Ridgmount Petrol Station

As one of the last local petrol stations in London, it was nominated for listing, but the proposal was turned down. Instead it was converted into a branch of the Byron Burger chain, which has since...

Building, Commerce, Transport

1 memorial
Brian James

Brian James

Artist. He specialises in pictures of cars, and a lot of his work is in the art deco style.

Person, Art

1 memorial

Seriously Famous

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George Frideric Handel
Bombs 7 July 2005
Charles de Gaulle
Bertolt Brecht
Piet Mondrian
George Eliot

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

Born on this day

King John II of France

Born: 26/4/1319, 706 years ago

Person, Royalty, France

3 memorials
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Puzzle-corner

Duchess of Sutherland and Countess of Cromarty

Active in 1885. Visit the picture source and you will see that Ron Hodgkinson, the owner of the painting, is trying to verify the identification of the sitter. So we are not certain that it is the ...

1 memorial
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