Fleet River floods - Purchese Street

Fleet River floods - Purchese Street

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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Richard Everitt - stone

Richard Everitt - stone

NW1, Purchese Street, Purchese Street Open Space

This is the plaque that was first erected nearby.

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Fleet River tributary - Mount Pleasant

Fleet River tributary - Mount Pleasant

WC1, Mount Pleasant, Fleet Valley Pocket Park

The plaque's prominent reference to Queen Square is confusing. The map at Dead End Street shows a Fleet tributary near Queen Square but i...

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Fleet River floods - Goldington Crescent

Fleet River floods - Goldington Crescent

NW1, Goldington Crescent Gardens

Not easy to spot, this plaque is laid into the ground, slightly right of centre in our photo.

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Bethnal Green Town Hall

Bethnal Green Town Hall

E2, Cambridge Heath Road

This 1910 Town Hall is by Percy Robinson with W. Alban Jones. Sculpture is by Henry Poole. The 1939 eastern extension is by E. C. P. Monson.

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Sir William Russell Flint

Sir William Russell Flint

W8, Peel Street, 80, Peel Cottage

Movement has caused the wall to crack, including the plaque.

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Edward Thomas

Edward Thomas

SW11, Shelgate Road, 61

Edward Thomas, 1878 - 1917, essayist and poet, lived here. London County Council

War dead | WW1
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Bruce Forsyth's ashes

Bruce Forsyth's ashes

W1, Argyll Street, 8

Exactly a year after he died, Forsyth's ashes were laid to rest under the stage at the London Palladium in a private ceremony, and a blue...

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London Palladium Centenary

London Palladium Centenary

W1, Argyll Street, 8

We were alerted to this plaque by The Express which had a photo (now, 2024, behind a paywall) from the unveiling and : "THE London Pallad...

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Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby

W1, Argyll Street, 8

We could not find the sculptor's name on the piece. Bing Crosby performed for two weeks at the Palladium starting 21 June 1976. The resu...

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