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St John's Highbury Vale Primary School - rebuilt

N5

This street was named Park Place until some time after 1841.

British Library memorials

NW1

All the sculptures are inside the main building. See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in the BL.

Street Cat Bob

N1

In 2007, as a homeless person living in supported housing, James Bowen was befriended by ginger cat Bob, who needed Bowen's help. Bowen was spotted...

Windrush Hackney statue

E8

HMS Albion disaster

E13

We were asked to stop taking photos here because it was an 'invasion of privacy'. This has never before happened to us in cemeteries and seems very...

Makram Ali

N4

In this little garden Makram Ali used to play with his grandchildren. It is not publicly accessible but, as we arrived, a resident was leaving the ...

Barry Evans

NW3

Salter vault

SE1

This area is covered by the Goad Fire Insurance Plan of London Vol. VII: sheet 154. But the normally reliable Old Maps Online is not currently prov...

Dr Salter Children's Playground - Coxson Place

SE1

In 2010 London SE1 reported that Thames Water had plans to take over this playground as a work site for the construction of the new 'super sewer' u...

The El-Wahabi orchard

W11

In the grounds of a very well protected school, this is not a memorial designed to be photographed.  5 young fruit trees can be seen in the grass b...