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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Bulldog Trust
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Royal Artillery Monument
The gun on top of the monument is a BL 9.2 inch Howitzer Mk I, carved in ston...
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Samuel Gurney Snr
Banker and philanthropist. Born near Norwich. Father of Samuel and of Catherine who married Edward, the son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. Died Paris, returning, ill, from a stay in Nice.
Metropolis Chapel Building Fund Association
Established under the leadership of Alexander M'Aulay to ‘promote the erection of commodious chapels in suitable situations in and around the metropolis, to assist in the enlargement of existing ch...
Samuel Lewis
Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who worked his way into being an established travelling jeweller by 1867, when he married and came with his wife, Ada, to London...
Charity scholars
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a ...
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Harwich House
The picture shows Harwich House about to be demolished in 1987. Comparing it with this Google Streetview we think Harwich House was on the site now occupied by the rather nasty glass arcade. Photo...
David Evans
Sculptor, born near Manchester. Other work in London includes: replacements for Gog and Magog, statues in Guildhall which were destroyed in WW2; the relief panel on the Methodist Missionary Societ...
Tin Pan Alley
‘Tin Pan Alley’ originally, 1885, referred to the section of New York City where music publishers and songwriters were based. In 1920s London music shops congregated in Denmark Street and the term...
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