City of Westminster
Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, which paved the way for its abolition.
W1, Riding House Street, 67-73
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Equiano - Riding House Street
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Equiano - Riding House Street
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Bishop Richard Challoner, 1691 - 1781, vicar-apostolic of the London District, died here.
The nearby Tufnell Park Playing Fields are also Fields in Trust and used to have their own plaque. But, a local resident informs us, this...
The rather oddly-placed plaque is only visible from the side street, St Petersburgh Place. Trying to locate an image of the building tha...
The Rhymers' Club is not specifically mentioned on the plaque but Ye Olde Cheese is where Yeats etc. met so we have put the Club on the l...
Seems very odd for the chosen illustration to be of a computer game.
Doctor. Born at 41 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. Qualified as a doctor in 1925, she set up her first clinic in the east end of London in 1935. During WW2 she was the doctor in charge of air raid sh...
Person, Community / Clubs, Medicine, India, Israel/Palestine
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
Bandleader. Born in Peckham, he studied at Trinity College of Music. In 1932 he became leader of the BBC Dance Orchestra, and his weekly radio programme drew huge audiences. He always concluded his...
Enrique Manuel Aguirre was born on 25 May 1903 in Anerley, Kent (now Greater London), the youngest of the three children of Enrique Blas Aguirre (1866-1926) and Henrietta Emma Aguirre née Rogers (1...
