Leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Killed at Smithfield by the Mayor of London, William Walworth.
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Wat Tyler
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Savoy Hotel - AR-MR
SH On the 13th June 1381, the Palace of the Savoy was burned and destroyed b...
St John's Gate
When we first spotted this plaque it was brass and quite brief. Sometime arou...
The Great Rising / Peasants' Revolt
Matthew Bell realised that The Great Rising lacked a proper memorial and that...
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Happy Mahlangu
Deputy Commissioner for South Africa in the UK in 1998. Our photo shows Mahangu with his wife in 2013. On the net he is best known for some ill-chosen comments on the democratisation of Swaziland w...
1 memorial
Edward Arthur Last-Smith
Edward Arthur Last Smith was born on 22 March 1884 in Torquay, Devon, the second of the five children of Edward Last Smith (1856-1937) and Emily Phyllis Smith née Dixon (1863-1936). His father was ...
1 memorial
A. J. S. (Tom) Brooks
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. The November 1931 photo is captioned "Chimney Sweep Tom Brooks (Original Caption) Chimney sweep as mayor. A chimney swee...
1 memorial
Willesden Urban District Council
Former London borough. Municipal Borough of Willesden 1874 to 1965. In 1965 it was merged with Wembley to form the London Borough of Brent.
1 memorial
Brotherhood Church
From Streets with a Story: "The former Brotherhood Church was originally Southgate Road Chapel, De Beauvoir Town (architect: J. Tarring) 1862, which up to 1935 was at the corner of Balmes Road. Thi...
1 memorial
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William Abeling
EC1, Wynyatt Street, 7
This is an extremely unusual plaque: its form and content are unique. Clearly hand-made, the writing just looks old. The plaque is either...
1 subject commemorated
Margaret Roper
Daughter of Sir Thomas More. After her executed father’s parboiled head had been displayed on a pike at London bridge for the required month, she bribed the keeper to give it to her. She pickled it...
2 memorials
Sir William Hooker
Botanist. Born William Jackson Hooker at 7 Magdalen Street, Norwich. He collected specimens of mosses from Scotland and Iceland. Became first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1841. Fat...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Science, Iceland / Faroe Islands, Scotland
1 memorial
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