Ancient Greek goddess who personified victory. She was the daughter of the Titan Pallas and the goddess Styx. Our photograph shows the famous 'Winged Victory of Samothrace', also called the 'Nike of Samothrace'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Nike
We think the last line of the plaque means that Kougioumtzis is the sculptor ...
Following the Reformation the taxes on church livings, which used to be paid to the Pope, went to the Crown. In 1704, during Queen Anne's reign, a scheme was implemented that used some of these fun...
Born Bath. His father was American and the family moved there in 1836. He trained in art and became a designer and producer of stained glass windows. He returned to England in 1845 and set up in...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Nonconformist minister and teacher. Born Devon. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
Sir John Poultney or de Pulteney was in the Drapers' Company, Lord Mayor 3 times in the period 1330-6, and had his house on the west of what is now Laurence Pountney Hill. He founded Corpus Christ...
George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr.
Wife of John Brandram Peele and mother of Charles John Peele, who founded almshouses in Bermondsey, in memory of her. The family lived at Childown Hall in Chertsey - see CJP for more info on the h...
Father of modern ventriloquism. Popularised the use of a single dummy. Father of Val Parnell. Born in Poplar. Died Wembley.
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