The Automobile Association, originally set up to help motorists avoid police speed traps, opened its first office in Fleet Street in 1905.
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Bostall Estate
In 1887 Bostall Farm was bought by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society and run to provide vegetables for the Co-op shops and food for the Society’s horses and pigs. By 1899 it had been decided t...
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St George's Mission and St Peter's church, Wapping
1856 Reverend Charles Fuge Lowder commenced work on the mission in Wapping (named for their church St George's-in-the-East). Initially it was met with hostility, but in time it came to play an impo...
2 memorials
Garraways Coffee House
Garraway claimed to be the first to sell tea to the public, but not, as far as we can tell, at the Change Alley site, where he moved his coffee house after the Great Fire of 1666, replacing another...
2 memorials
Stanley Hall & Baths
From the splendid Acland Burgley School history site we learn that the Honourable E. Lyulph Stanley (1839-1925 and son of Lady Stanley) was an energetic member of the London School Board with speci...
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Sir Duncan Watson, J.P., M.I.E.E.
Duncan Watson was born on 11 January 1873 in Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the tenth of the eleven children of Joseph Watson (1831-1905) and Margaret Paton Watson née Connell (1833-1919). His t...
Person, Community / Clubs, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Scotland
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Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn
The construction was partly funded by a sharp increase in the fine for "fornicating with a woman in chambers".
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Three Prime Ministers
SW1, St James's Square, 10, Chatham House
The modern information board at the entrance to the gardens points out that the three Prime Ministers lived here at different times. It w...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Jazzie B - steel statue
N4, Station Place
There are two plaques on the blue bench behind the statues: Plaque 1: The characters for this Portrait Bench chosen by your community ce...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
George Robert Baylis
George Robert Baylis was born on 26 June 1873 in Newington, Lambeth, one of the eight children of George Alfred Baylis (1844-1904) and Sophia Louisa Baylis née Yabsley (1841-1915). His birth was re...
War dead non-military, WW1
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Queen Anne Statue - SW1
SW1, Queen Anne's Gate, 13
Made for the portico of St Mary-le-Strand but it was never erected there. It has been in Queen Anne's Gate since at least 1708. Sculptor ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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