Jackie Free
E11, Pearcroft Road, 75
Jackie Free, British jazz trombonist. Born in Leytonstone, lived here between 1932 - 1954 "A fine trombone man" (Louis Armstrong 1956) Wa...
Lambeth Chapel
SE1, Lambeth Road, Lambeth Mission and St Mary
1739 was the year after Wesley's 'Aldersgate experience' and the year in which he formed the Methodist Society in England. It's not the y...
Warburton property - lunatic asylum
E2, Roman Road
This 1897 OS map shows that Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum occupied the land between this alley and Bethnal Green Gardens. The Warburton fa...
Archbishop Sumner's Memorial Schools
SE11, Reedworth Street, Archbishop Sumner Primary School
These three men must have been the vicars at St Philips, at the years given.
Hugh Gaitskell House
N16, Stamford Hill
{The top plaque:} These flats erected for the Stoke Newington Borough Council were opened by Baroness Gaitskell of Egremont on the 9th Ma...
Virginia & Leonard Woolf - Tavistock Square
WC1, Tavistock Square, 52, Tavistock Hotel
Blogging Woolf quote Woolf's diary: "Wednesday 9 January [1924] At this very moment, or fifteen minutes ago to be precise, I bought the t...
St John's House rebuilt
WC1, Queen Square, 12, St John's House
We find this building puzzling since in some ways it looks more modern than those around but it retains many characteristics that suggest...
Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church - 7 Blake
N5, Highbury Quadrant
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church - 4 Glassey
N5, Highbury Quadrant
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...