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.
City of Westminster
W1, Riding House Street, 67-73
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Olaudah 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:
Olaudah Equiano - Riding House Street
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
The two memorial stones are on the wall to the left of our photo, hidden by the foliage. They are in very good (as new) condition and we ...
We failed to find this in Dec-Jan 2017. The plaque shows bowls of soup, bread rolls and spoons holding salt, as a reference to the Jewish...
Rudy Narayan, 1938 - 1998, barrister, civil rights activist, community champion and "voice for the voiceless", practised law here 1987 - ...
The wall plaque is between the pair of first floor windows on the far end wall. Designed in 1860 by architect T. E. Knightley and built b...
Major Allan H Beckett MBE RE (1914 - 2005) lived here (1919 - 1939). His engineering designs made the Mulberry Harbour and the D-Day land...
This replaced the WW1 shrine that was erected in 1918, which was always intended to be a temporary memorial, but wasn't replaced until 20...
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