Commodity Quay
E1, St Katharine Docks, Commodity Quay
London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Qu...
1 subject commemorated
Charlotte Despard
SW11, 177 Lavender Hill, 177, Battersea Labour Party HQ
From Penelope J. Corfield: this was unveiled "exactly one hundred years after the date when she stood as the Labour Party candidate in No...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Jonathan Tyers
SE1, Tyers Gate
The plaque can be seen in our photo, over to the right, buried in the hedge.
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Electricity Committee
NW6, Salusbury Road, 131
In the gables are two substantial relief plaques, on the left: "DWC, 1902", on the right: a coat of arms which we found at Heraldry of th...
2 creators
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
King's Cross Cinema - rock concerts
WC1, King's Cross Bridge, Scala
Promoter Tony Defries hired King's Cross Cinema, now Scala, for July 14-15, 1972, to put on the successive London debuts of Lou Reed and ...
4 subjects commemorated
Wallace drinking fountain
W1, Manchester Square, Hertford House, The Wallace Collection
The plaque explains why this fountain look so familiar to anyone who has walked around Paris. In 1872 Wallace donated 50 drinking fountai...
5 creators
Little Dorrit gate
SE1, Little Dorrit Court, Playground
The quoted text comes at the end of Chapter 13 of 'Little Dorrit' by Charles Dickens, the 'him' being Arthur Clennam. The Victorian Socie...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Peabody tenants
SE1, Blackfriars Road
This is an odd little obelisk, with minimal information. We wonder if the form is intended to recall the obelisk at nearby St George's Ci...
1 subject commemorated
Peabody Fund - Centenary
SE1, Blackfriars Road
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Peabody Donation Fund by George Peabody, London banker and American citizen, this plaque was...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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