Formed by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Dartford, Swanscombe Urban District and part of Dartford Rural District.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Dartford Borough Council
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Hampden Bomber P4399 crash
{Beneath the RAF wings badge:} In memory of those who lost their lives near t...
Jane Austen - Dartford
We'd guess that this plaque is based on a letter that Jane wrote from here.
Richard Trevithick - Dartford
{Beneath the Dartford Council coat of arms:} Richard Trevithick, 1771 - 1833,...
Steve Hudson
At first we thought this was a guerrilla (unauthorised) plaque but then, at N...
V1 Flying Bomb Dartford
V1 Flying Bomb Carrington Road Sunday 6th August 1944. On this spot fell a V1...
Other Subjects
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
Favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Died near Oxford, on his way to Buxton to take the baths.
1 memorial
Dr William Henry Walter
Medical doctor and member of Brentford Council in 1909.
1 memorial
Admiral, Sir Robert Stopford, GCB, GCMG
Naval officer. Governor of of Greenwich Hospital, 1 May 1841 until his death.
1 memorial
Thomas Neale MP
Entrepreneur, the organiser of England's first lottery. Known as 'The Great Projector' although the layout of the Seven Dials area is his only surviving London project. Neal Street and Neal's Yard...
1 memorial
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian politician, instrumental in India's independence. Born as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at Porbunder in Gujarat. Assassinated in Delhi on the way to prayers. There is another statue of Gandhi i...
Person, Nationalism, Peace, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, India
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E. V. Knox
Editor of Punch, 1932 - 1949, essayist and poet. Used the penname Evoe. In 1977 his daughter, Penelope Fitzgerald the author, wrote a biography, "The Knox Brothers" of him and his two brothers.
1 memorial
Chiswick National School
Much of the following information comes from the very helpful Gill Clegg's Chiswick History page. 1707 a charity school was founded at St Nicholas church near the river. It expanded until in 1813 ...
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Zaehnsdorf bookbinders
From the research published by the Seven Dials Trust: "Zaehnsdorfs was founded in London in 1841 by Joseh Zaehnsdorf. In 1862 he received an honourable mention at the London International Exhibitio...
1 memorial
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