Sir Hugh Neville owned the Manor of Leadenhall including his mansion Neville House. He set up a small food fair on the grounds in 1309 and this grew into Leadenhall Market. Which suggests it is just a coincidence that the Roman forum (marketplace) was sited here.
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Neville House
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Leadenhall Market
Leadenhall Market The meat and fish Market first occupied a series of courts,...
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West Hackney Almshouses / Cooke's Rents
Mainly from British History Online we've learnt the following: In 1740 Thomas Cooke, a director of the Bank of England, built almshouses, Cooke’s Rents, for 8 poor families with small children, and...
1 memorial
St Pancras Housing Association
One of the earlier housing associations. In 1924 Father Basil Jellicoe founded the St Pancras House Improvement Society Ltd which was later named the St Pancras Housing Association. In 2000 it merg...
2 memorials
Thomas Devas
Wimbledon landowner and important member of local society. In 1854, Devas and two friends, Holroyd and Oliphant, founded Wimbledon Cricket Club and Devas became its first president. Lived in Mount ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Bombs 7/7/05 - Tavistock Square
WC1, Tavistock Square
All the text is turned sideways, so it avoids being upside down, whether viewed from inside or outside the garden. This memorial, while s...
15 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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