Subjects : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London

Doctor Edith Whetnall

Ear, nose and throat surgeon. Born Edith Aileen Maude Whetnall in Hull. She worked at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and became the first director of the Nuffield Hearing and Spe...

Person, Medicine

1 memorial

Palace Theatre Walthamstow

Designed by Wylson and Long, it was located at 195 - 197 Walthamstow High Street. Known in rhyming slang as 'Aunty Alice', It opened as a cinema and music hall, and became a playhouse in 1952. It c...

Building, Cinema, Theatre

1 memorial

Herbert Llewelyn Walton

Grandfather, milkman and theatre attendant. One of 7 brothers, came to Walthamstow from Isham, Northampton, a small village about midway between Leicester and Cambridge. Worked thirty years as a m...

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial

Central London Railway

Railway line, known as the 'Twopenny Tube', as all tickets were sold at the price of two pre-decimal pennies. It was taken over by London Underground, becoming the Central line. See Londonist for ...

Place, Transport

1 memorial

Harry Bell Measures

Architect. He designed high quality houses in London and south-east England, as well as housing developments for working men in London and Birmingham. A large proportion of his work comprised thirt...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial