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Hanseatic merchants
Commemorated ati
Hanseatic merchants and 60 years of peace
Let's cover the easy bit first: The German at the end translates as “The old ...
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Albert E. Reed
Paper manufacturer and Weslian preacher. Born Devon. Established a newsprint manufacturing company in Kent in 1894. By 1965 this had grown to be the Reed Group and in 1993 it merged to become R...
1 memorial
Foyles bookshop
Created by William and Gilbert Foyle. See William for more information. For more on old London bookshops see Spitalfields Life.
2 memorials
Bearman's Department Store
Opened by Frank Bearman on the site of a former vicarage. By 1906 he had purchased a nearby furniture shop, and in 1910 opened an arcade to match the larger department stores in London. It claimed ...
1 memorial
Dieter Bock
Hans-Dieter Bock, or Dieter Bock, was born on 3 March 1939 in Dessau, the capital of the Free State of Anhalt. (This later became the German Democratic Republic and is now Germany). Having fled wi...
4 memorials
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Carol Paula Chapman
Trustee, fundraiser and volunteer of the Charles Dickens Museum. The 2004 book 'Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of His Informal Language' by Norman Francis Blake was dedicated "In...
1 memorial
Dr Margery Blackie
SW7, Thurloe Street, 18
English Heritage Dr Margery Blackie, 1898 - 1981, homeopathic physician, lived and worked here 1929 - 1980.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Virtues - Compromise
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
We initially thought this odd scene may refer to one of Loretta Young's films, but no. The image contains a number of puzzling elements ...
1 subject commemorated
WW2 aircraft crash
UB7, Harmondsworth Moor, Middle Meadow
The crash plaque is attached to a large chunk of granite - a piece of the John Rennie Waterloo Bridge (source: Colne Valley Park). And a...
War dead | WW2
11 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
11 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet and philosopher. First non-European Nobel Laureate. Born into a large, rich, assimilated family which had made its fortune from the East India Company. He read law at University Colle...
3 memorials
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