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Lord Mayor in 1989.
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Sir Hugh Bidwell, Lord Mayor
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Mayoralty of the City of London - 800 years
The environmental improvements and landscaping to Salisbury Square were donat...
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Thomas Sainsbury
Lord Mayor. Grocer of Ludgate Hill, Bowyer, Alderman of Billingsgate and Governor of the Fellowship Porters in 1786. Came from Wiltshire. Died at Newcourt House, Devon. His tomb is at St Mary's, Ma...
1 memorial
Sir John Bell, Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London in 1907.
2 memorials
Sir Stephen Henry Molyneux Killik
Lord Mayor of London 1934-5. From the Fanmakers: "elected Lord Mayor in 1934 (George V’s Silver Jubilee year), having previously been Master of the Fan Makers in 1917, and Sheriff in 1922; in 1927...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Sir Denis Truscott, Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London in 1957
1 memorial
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Guy Fawkes
Born a protestant in York but became a Catholic when his widowed mother married a Catholic. A professional soldier, he fought for Spain but when he realised that Spain would not invade Britain and ...
1 memorial
Stephen Maynard - red plaque
E14, Limehouse Dock quayside, Harbour Masters Office
This Harbour Masters Office has a rather nice 6-sided pagoda-like from. The model of the basin is on the mini-me brick pedestal. It doesn...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
New River
The so-called New River is actually an aqueduct built 1609 - 1613 from near Ware, Hertfordshire, to Islington to bring fresh water from country springs to the City. It required a 1602 charter from ...
8 memorials
Hiroshima and Nagasaki - N19
N19, Hornsey Rise, Elthorne Park Noel-Baker Peace Garden
The ideograms are Japanese Kanji characters forming the word Heiwa which is one way of expressing 'peace' in Japanese.
1 subject commemorated
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
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