Battersea Arts Centre - fire
SW11, Lavender Hill, Battersea Arts Centre
On the afternoon of Friday 13th March 2015, a fire started in the Grand Hall. This steel truss had held up the structure for 122 years. W...
1 subject commemorated
George VI - Jupp Road
E15, Jupp Road , 20 - 30, Telephone Exchange
The Institute and School vacated in 1905 and the telephone exchange building was constructed in 1936. One wonders how the site was used ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Horse scratching post
SE11, Orient Street
This very unusual item was brought to our attention by an information board in nearby West Square. Apparently horses need to scratch for...
London Blossom Garden - Coronavirus pandemic
E20, Honour Lea Avenue, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
From the information board: "Welcome to the London Blossom Garden. This garden commemorates those who lost their lives to the coronavirus...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Thomas Fairchild
E2, Fairchild’s Garden
This garden used to be known as the Shoreditch Old Burial Ground, part of St Leonard’s Churchyard, and included the Poor Ground in which,...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Salisbury Snooker Club
E11, Aylmer Road
This unusual and rather pleasing sign must surely be a recent creation. We think the panels around the edge may be rescued from a vintag...
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Roman Wall - Tower Hill
EC3, Trinity Square, Tower Hill Station
Despite having a light shining on it, the exposed section of wall just looks like a rough black area inside a black hole framed in black ...
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1 creator
New Gravel Pit Chapel - plaque
E9, Mead Place
In our photo the plaque is lost behind the bramble branches to the right of the right-most panel. We have captured 2 of the c.5 sculpted ...
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3 creators
Richard Everitt - bench
NW1, Purchese Street, Purchese Street Open Space
This open space was reduced in size in 2020-22 to allow the construction of a building on the Purchese Street/Brill Place corner. The re...
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1 creator
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 ...
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