UBR
SW14, Thames Bank
Not a memorial at all but interesting nonetheless - this 'University Stone', together with the striped 'University Post' opposite, mark the finish line of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
University Boat Race stone - finish
A race on the River Thames, now run annually between Oxford and Cambridge uni...
Our image comes from Historic England where we found the designer, Groll, but don't trust the dates given there.
In summary: 45ft high, clad in white Carrara marble. Designed by Nash and erected, 1827-33, as a ceremonial entrance from the Mall to Bu...
The quoted text comes at the end of Chapter 13 of 'Little Dorrit' by Charles Dickens, the 'him' being Arthur Clennam. The Victorian Socie...
There is no plaque (2022) but this is any important building so we decided to collect it. Originally called 'Streatham Street Buildings'...
Our photographs were taken a week after Phillipine’s death as we joined another 1,500 cyclists in a protest ride past the site of the col...
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