Edgar Wilson's model houses

Edgar Wilson's model houses

SW8, Vauxhall Park

2024: Londonist discovered this hamlet.

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Sarah Parker Remond

Sarah Parker Remond

WC1, Grenville Street

Remond lived at 6 Grenville Street, which would have been opposite this modern building, in a Georgian terrace - and we believe there is ...

3 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Spock's mother

Spock's mother

SE4, Marnock Road, 11

This plaque was brought to our attention by Londonist, of course. Why the plaque is on this particular house remains a mystery. It's been...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Lesney Products

Lesney Products

E9, Wallis Road, 90

Erected sometime 2008-15.

1 subject commemorated
Lilian Baylis - SW9

Lilian Baylis - SW9

SW9, Stockwell Park Road, 27

From English Heritage: "Baylis moved into 27 Stockwell Park Road with her aunt, Emma Cons, in 1914, and remained there until her death in...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Woodbury Hill shield

Woodbury Hill shield

IG10, Woodbury Hill, 9

This heraldic shield is probably original to the building and has no connection to the Adamses. If anyone can decode the heraldry symbols...

Sarah and William Adams

Sarah and William Adams

IG10, Woodbury Hill, 9

On this site lived William Bridges Adams (1797 - 1872) inventor and polemicist, and his wife Sarah Flower (1805 - 1848) hymnodist and poe...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Tea industry - the City

Tea industry - the City

EC4, High Timber Street, Sir John Lyon House, 8

From London Tea History: "The 3rd plaque, sponsored by Tata Consumer Products, has been erected at Sir John Lyon House in London EC4V 3PA...

4 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Turnham Green Church Hall

Turnham Green Church Hall

W4, Heathfield Gardens, Heathfield House School

St Luke's feast day is 18 October. It's very possible that the text we can't quite read identifies Shattock as a churchwarden along with ...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Edmund Burke - NW6

Edmund Burke - NW6

NW6, Maygrove Road, Maygrove Peace Park

The park was built on former railway sidings and opened on 27 April 1983, to coincide with the 38th anniversary of the dropping of the at...

1 subject commemorated
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