This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Printing
Commemorated ati
1 - Crane Court – The Daily Courant
Crane Court The Daily Courant, No 1 Wednesday March 11, 1702 {A facsimile of ...
2 - Red Lion Court – Caslon
Red Lion Court W Caslon Junr Letter founder ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAEOE I...
3 - Johnson’s Court – Dr Johnson’s Dictionary
{A facsimile of a page of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary.} From 1748 to 1759 Dr Joh...
4 - St Dunstan’s Court – Space Invaders
Seems very odd for the chosen illustration to be of a computer game.
5 - Bolt Court – The Sun
Bolt Court The Sun {A facsimile of a page of the paper.} Tuesday 15 September...
Other Subjects
Grove Road Toll Bar
"In use in the 18th and 19th centuries" so the dates we give are very approximate.
Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, Charles Cheers
Businessman. Born Liverpool. His brand name being Castrol he was very successful and set up in the City of London. Lord Mayor in 1915-16. Promoted and funded pioneering aviation and motor sports. 1...
John Payton
A local business man, he had the vision to create Camden Passage antiques market in the early 1960s. We can't prove that he was also a sculptor but his surname is inscribed on the Cruden relief bus...
Thornton's Corner
A retail business established by Tom William Thornton and run by his family for over 70 years. The premises (nos 100 - 110) sold stationery, newspapers, books and artists materials, and provided va...
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Woolf Joel
Born Spitalfields. South African mining magnate and businessman. The web provides the following anecdote: Early in 1898, just before leaving for South Africa, Woolf gave a dinner party at the Sav...
Colonial Office - B17 - Cook
SW1, Whitehall, Foreign Office
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
E1, Brick Lane, 91, Old Truman Brewery
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786 - 1845, anti-slavery campaigner, lived and worked here. English Heritage
Robert Napier statue - SW7
SW7, Queen's Gate
We have a query concerning the designe of this statue . . . Firstly, note that in 1883 Boehm had already produced a similar Napier statu...
Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Born Calcutta, India. Artist and writer. His father was a civil servant in India and the family moved to England on his retirement. A minor figure in the Pre-Raphaelites, although he exhibited regu...
Person, Art, Literature, India
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