Oliver Goldsmith - grave
EC4, Middle Temple, Falcon Court
Goldsmith died at his home in Middle Temple and was buried in the grounds of the Temple Church. This plaque was installed following a 20...
Goldsmith died at his home in Middle Temple and was buried in the grounds of the Temple Church. This plaque was installed following a 20...
Our Latin consultant, David Hopkins, didn’t find it easy to translate descriptions of a person’s character but it reads well to us. He ad...
The statue was sculpted by Graham Ibbeson.
Originally the 'Parmiter Street Re-housing Scheme', this development was named The Lenin Estate at a meeting, July 1927, by the then very...
The Independent reported the unveiling. We thank our colleague Alan Patient for these photos.
The pub was established in 1848 and initially we assumed the widow was the innkeeper's wife. Then we found a 2013 article in the Romford...
The signal box is now, 2022, home to La Boîte, a crêperie. The story of this signal box is well told at Highams Park Forum, where we lea...
This plaque is on platform 1, at the start of the walkway to Hackney Central station.
Edward Ardizzone, 1900 - 1979, artist and illustrator, lived here, 1920 - 1972. English Heritage
By 'mezzanine' we mean the half-floor around the main concourse, though Network Rail called it a 'balcony' in their press release announc...