Moorgate tube disaster - Finsbury Square
EC2, Finsbury Square
The motivating force behind this memorial, the first to the tragedy, erected 38 years after the event, was historian and writer Richard J...
44 subjects commemorated
Shaheed Minar martyrs
E1, Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel High Street
This monument is a replica of the original monument constructed in Dhaka, Bangladesh to commemorate those killed during the Bengali Langu...
1 subject commemorated
Clapham Junction rail disaster
SW18, Spencer Park
The shape of the monument suggests a railway carriage cut in two. 2020:Wikipedia names the sculptor as Richard Healy and we are informed...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Svitlana Tereschenko
E3, Bow Flyover Roundabout
Svitlana Tereschenko was killed when hit by a left-turning tipper lorry. Only a few weeks after this horrible death Brian Dorling died i...
2 subjects commemorated
Women's Transport Service (FANY)
SW1, Wilton Place, St Pauls church
We like the bespoke layout of this plaque: the medals, the maiden-name, the "in Japan", all fitted in, one way or another, achieving a pl...
War dead, War served | WW1, WW2
58 subjects commemorated
58 subjects commemorated
King's Cross war memorial - 3. post-renovations
NW1, Euston Road, King's Cross Station
We are not convinced that basing the design of this memorial on the painting Gassed is totally successful. Compare this memorial with th...
4 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Malta Siege
EC3, Byward Street, All Hallows by the Tower
The solid block of stone for the memorial came from Gozo, one of the three inhabited islands that make up Malta. This stone was easily av...
3 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
Rotherhithe war memorial
SE16, St Marychurch Street, St Mary the Virgin Church
The Rotherhithe people were prescient or just lucky. The way they had worded the text for their WW1 memorial meant that all they had to ...
2 subjects commemorated
St John on Bethnal Green war memorial
E2, Cambridge Heath Road, St John on Bethnal Green
A large crucifix is quite common in the forecourt of a church. This one, planted in a pile of stones, a cairn, reminds us of one in High...
1 subject commemorated
4 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
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