Person    | Male  Born 6/7/1766  Died 20/10/1839

John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford

Categories: Property

Continued the development of Bloomsbury including the building of the Covent Garden Market in the Piazza. He received a royal grant permitting the market.

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John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford

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Covent Garden Market

Large bronze relief "Fruit Porter Bronze", unveiled October 2006 by Mayor of ...

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St Katherine's Rents

St Katherine's Rents

Bestowed in 1370 upon the Royal Hospital at St Katharine's by the Tower. We can find no information about these properties, housing we assume, besides these two maps: 1677 (shown here) and 1792-9. ...

Place, Property

1 memorial
Reading Gaol

Reading Gaol

Former prison on Forbury Road in Reading. Designed by George Gilbert Scott. Its most famous inmate was Oscar Wilde, who wrote 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' whilst he was here. It housed prisoners of...

Building, Law, Property

1 memorial
Lion rampant 'H' boundary markers

Lion rampant 'H' boundary markers

These markers are similar in function to Elger's boundary marker, but with no names or dates to assist. The local manor house, Highbury House, used to be on the site of Eton House, Leigh Road, to ...

Place, Property

3 memorials
Sir Henry Tempest

Sir Henry Tempest

4th and last baronet. In 1798 he built a country villa in Highgate which later was known as "The Holly Lodge" on Highgate West Hill, and became the property of Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

Person, Property

1 memorial
Belair House

Belair House

Country villa. Originally called College Place. In 1947 Southwark Council purchased the lease but as the main building was in such a poor state it had to be rebuilt from ground level, retaining onl...

Building, Property

1 memorial

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1 memorial
G. Botsford

G. Botsford

Worked at the Stock Exchange and died in WW2.

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War dead, WW2
1 memorial