Queen's College, founded 1848. This college is an Independent Day School for girls aged 11-18 and was the first academic institution for girls providing qualifications and access to higher education.
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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen's College
The Queen's college site is a lively site and provides some history. Catherin...
The two plaques appear to be back to back; the outside one being the foundation stone and the inside one the opening stone. To the left,...
Unveiled 25 November 2000, the 30th anniversary of the commemorated event. Invited guests included the Culture Secretary Chris Smith MP, ...
The plaque can be seen to the lower right in the picture. The address is sometimes given as 80 Old Broad Street, the address at which he ...
See Spitalfields Life for a good post on the Caslon Foundry. April 2017: John Whitehead told us the plaque has been removed by developer...
Hoxton Hall. Built 1863 as a music hall. Owned since 1893 by Bedford Institute The Society of Friends (Quakers). Community activities ex...
Chemist. Born Penzance. Wrote "Researches, Chemical and Philosophical". Discovered potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. Invented the safety lamp for coal miners.
The inscription is carved into the stone and the date appears to read 1082 but the spacing is wrong, so some unknown event has corrupted ...
Author of over 50 delightful novels. Born at 16 Keppel Street. Worked for the GPO (General Post Office) 1834 - 59 and introduced the free-standing postbox ('pillar box') to the UK, an idea stolen f...
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