Person    | Male  Born 30/1/1609  Died 25/6/1674

Sir Orlando Bridgeman

Judge. Lord Keeper. Born Exeter. Lived in Essex Street. Died Teddington. Buried in St Mary with St Alban church where he is featured in a modern window.

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Sir Orlando Bridgeman

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Essex Street & Essex Hall

This plaque was first erected at 7 Essex Street in 1962 and then re-erected h...

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Epping Forest Act 1878

Epping Forest Act 1878

The Epping Forest Act placed all the commons and forest in the parish of Epping, except Rye Hill, under the protection and management of the City of London, thus ensuring their preservation. We le...

Event, Gardens / Agriculture, Law

1 memorial
James Stephen

James Stephen

Anti-slavery campaigner.  Born Dorset.  Trained in law and worked for a time in the Carribean where he saw the cruelty to slaves and became an abolitionist.  The death of his first wife deepened hi...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Francis Percy Hodes

Francis Percy Hodes

Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Penge Urban District Council 1921 - 22. In 1937, when was elected as one of the County Aldermen for Kent he was described as a retired engineer and his add...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Marshalsea Prison

Marshalsea Prison

Originally built to hold prisoners being tried by the Marshalsea Court and the Court of the King's Bench. Its first site, from at least 1329 was on Borough High Street on the block now bordered...

Place, Law

6 memorials
Tyburn tree

Tyburn tree

The first recorded execution here was the hanging of the champion of London's poor, William Fitz Osbern in 1196. Back then there may have been a real tree but in 1571 the 'Tyburn Tree' was erected....

Place, Execution, Law, Tragedy

5 memorials

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Brewery - War Memorial

Brewery - War Memorial

EC1, Chiswell Street, 52

This is a loosely-worded plaque. We don't think it really means ALL the men lost in both World Wars, just those that worked at the Brewery.

3 subjects commemorated
Sir Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming

Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1927. However he did not realise the significance and it was not until 1940 that Florey and Chain demonstrat...

Person, Medicine, Science, Seriously Famous, Scotland

6 memorials
Sidney Leader Cramer

Sidney Leader Cramer

N6, Fitzroy Park

Donated by the Fitzroy Park Residents Association This Tree was planted in memory of Sidney Leader Cramer, for many years Chairman of th...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator