This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Islingtonians killed in WW1
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Islington war memorial - Islington Green
This replaced the WW1 shrine that was erected in 1918, which was always inten...
Islington war shrine
We believe Higham funded this temporary memorial, rather than just putting in...
Islington WW1 memorial - Manor Gardens - names
Through the gates you can see that most of the names are nicely picked out bu...
RNH - WW1 memorial plaque
In 1997, as a condition of developing the RNH site, Bellway Homes (the develo...
Royal Northern Gardens gates
Royal Northern Gardens is Islington's War Memorial to all those who gave thei...
Other Subjects
Howard de Walden Estates Ltd
Wikipedia has a very useful map showing "Estate (freehold) ownership of land in Central London as of 2023". The Howard de Walden Estate is shown in light red.
St George's Hospital
Set up when the entire medical staff of the Westminster Hospital resigned in a dispute concerning the new location for that hospital. St George's was established in Knightsbridge for the country ai...
Automobile Association
The Automobile Association, originally set up to help motorists avoid police speed traps, opened its first office in Fleet Street in 1905.
Previously viewed
St Pancras Way bridge - opened
NW1, St Pancras Way
In our photo this large plaque can be seen on the pier to the right of the railings. The foundation stone for the bridge had been laid j...
John Desmond Bernal, MA, FRS.
Crystallographer. John Desmond Bernal was born on 10 May 1901 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, the eldest of the five children of Samuel George Bernal (1864-1919) and Elizabeth Bernal née Mil...
Manze's pie and mash shops
The Manze family came to Bermondsey from Ravello in Italy. Initially they were ice-merchants, and then ice-cream makers. Michele Manze branched out and opened their first eel, pie and mash shop in ...
Pollock's toy theatre shop
This was started by John Redington, selling printed sheets of characters and scenery for toy theatres. He ran it until his death when his family took over. 1877 his daughter Eliza married Benjamin ...
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