Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surrounding area for the benefit of residents, businesses and visitors and to promote community spirit and a sense of shared responsibility, working in partnership with other organisations that share the same aims.
As at 2020 MA has erected 27 plaques.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Marchmont Association
Alexander Herzen, 1812 - 1870, operated the Free Russian Press from this buil...
Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least...
These streets become almost impassible during London Fashion week when the Ha...
Charles Fort, 1874 - 1932, American writer and founder of Forteanism, the stu...
Charlotte Mew, 1869 - 1928, poet, lived here, 1869 - 1890. Marchmont Association
The picture source says: "An Old Justice pub has been on the site for at least the mid 1850s and the name probably refers to the old justices of the peace, who often had businesses in the area as w...
From their website: YWCA was founded in 1855 by Miss Emma Robarts and The Hon Mrs Arthur Kinnaird. Miss Robarts started organising groups for young women who were coming to London for the first ti...
The first permanent English settlement in the Americas, and named by some as the place where the British Empire began.105 so-called 'adventurers' sailed in three ships, the 'Susan Constant', the 'D...
Started in the early 1970s as Wapping Parents Action Group. Transformed into a history group in the early 1980s. More info at What's in Wapping.
Frank Mowbray Taubman was born on 13 June 1868 in Holloway, Middlesex (now Greater London), the second of the four children of Robert Taubman (1840-1905) and Fanny Taubman née Mountain (1845-1932)....
Patricia Helen Le Poer Trench was born on 5 April 1922 in Nairobi, Kenya, the younger daughter of Arthur Hugh Donald Le Poer Trench (1889-1965) and Hilda Mabel Le Poer Trench née Bradshaw (1883-195...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
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