Morley's fountain

Morley's fountain

E5, Clapton Square garden

Erected by Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, 83 Lancaster Gate, at the sole cost of Howard Morley Esq. former resident in the loca...

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Thomas Crapper

Thomas Crapper

SE20, Thornsett Road, 12

Thomas Crapper, 1837 - 1910, engineer, developer of the controlled flow cistern lived here. The London Borough of Bromley

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Jubilee Gardens - first opening

Jubilee Gardens - first opening

SE1, Belvedere Road, Jubilee Gardens

We photographed this plaque in 2003 in its original location, along with a Braille panel which does seem to be truly lost.

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Jubilee Gardens - second opening

Jubilee Gardens - second opening

SE1, Belvedere Road, Jubilee Gardens

We'd given up the original plaque as lost, and had never even seen the second one, until 2022 when Londonist reported on this arrangement...

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Holly Park Church

Holly Park Church

N4, Holly Park, Holly Park Methodist Church

Below two of the ground floor windows, on the stone window surrounds, are carved about 15 sets of initials (including E. K. G.; F. E.; K....

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Nelly Power

Nelly Power

N1, Southgate Road, 97

Nelly Power (1854 - 1887) actress & singer, lived here. The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.

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Gable Cottages

Gable Cottages

SE1, Sudrey Street, Gable Cottages

This plaque is on the central façade of this horseshoe shaped development of houses. Sudrey Street was previously names Little Suffolk St...

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Composed upon Westminster Bridge

Composed upon Westminster Bridge

SW1, Westminster Bridge

W. Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage (P654-5) contains a lovely description of daybreak seem from Westminster Bridge c.1898 which...

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Horatio, Lord Nelson - Deptford Town Hall

Horatio, Lord Nelson - Deptford Town Hall

SE14, New Cross Road, Goldsmith's University of London

The 1905 building is by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards. All the extensive decorative sculpture work is by Henry Poole and has a nautica...

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Sir Francis Drake - Deptford Town Hall

Sir Francis Drake - Deptford Town Hall

SE14, New Cross Road, Goldsmith's University of London

The 1905 building is by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards. All the extensive decorative sculpture work is by Henry Poole and has a nautica...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
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