Sculptor and illustrator. Born Bloomsbury. Executed a large number of public statues and funerary works, and worked closely with George Gilbert Scott on the Albert Memorial. Died at home 52 Circus Road. The picture source leads you to other Armstead work.
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Henry Hugh Armstead
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Colonial Office - B04 - Sinclair
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Lady Diana Beauclerk
Lady Diana Spencer was born in 1735, the eldest child of the third Duke of Marlborough. She was expected to follow a traditional path through life: educated in the fashion considered suitable for a...
2 memorials
Tate Galleries
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1 memorial
William Bell Scott
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1 memorial
William Hogarth
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12 memorials
Boris Anrep
Mosaic artist. Also wrote poetry in Russian and English. Born Russia. Came to England in 1899 to learn English. Spent time in St Petersburg, Edinburgh and Paris. A 1904 visit to see the mosaics in ...
6 memorials
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North London Railway
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1 memorial
Treatment Rooms 2 - Martin Luther King
W5, 199 Acton Lane
Occupy London was a movement for social justice in London and part of the international Occupy movement. Active 2011-12.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
London Fire Brigade
The London Fire Engine Establishment, formed in 1833 under the leadership of James Braidwood, was a private organisation funded by insurance companies, mainly aimed at saving material goods from fi...
13 memorials
Execution Dock at Prospect of Whitby
E1, Pelican Dock, Prospect of Whitby
Go down Pelican Stairs, the passageway you can see in our picture, and you will see the noose at the riverside.
1 subject commemorated
First Zeppelin bomb of WW1, correct - 2
N16, Alkham Road, 16
Commemoration of this event has had a chequered history. First Hackney mistakenly erected a plaque on the wrong building. That plaque the...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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