This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
St Clement Danes well
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St Clement Danes well
The well underneath 191 feet deep & containing L 50 of water was sunk &a...
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Edmund Halsey
Born Hertfordshire, a distant relative of Josiah Child. Joined the Anchor Brewery as a 'broomstick clerk' and rapidly became Child's son-in-law and partner. Ran the brewery 1693-1729. MP for Sou...
Nicholson's pubs
The Nicholson's brothers opened their first pub in 1873.
Frost Fairs
There are records of the Thames freezing over as far back as CE 250. The piers of old London Bridge were broad and close together, meaning that they could get easily blocked creating a dam which wo...
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)
MP, brewer, slave abolitionist and social reformer. Born Essex. Entered the Brick Lane brewery Truman, Hanbury & Company in 1808, eventually taking on sole ownership. 1807 married Hannah Gurney...
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G. K. Chesterton - birth
W8, Sheffield Terrace, 32 - 34
Are we proud of spotting this small, dark plaque? You bet we are!
Dame Sybil Thorndike
SW3, Carlyle Square, 6
English Heritage Dame Sybil Thorndike, 1882-1976, actress, lived here, 1921-1932.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie
From LSHTM: "Marie Sklodowska-Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences: physics and chemistr...
Suffragette Fellowship
Founded by Edith How-Martyn to "perpetuate the memory of the pioneers and outstanding events connected with women's emancipation and especially with the militant suffrage campaign, 1905-14, and thu...
Hurlingham Yacht Club
SW15, Deodar Road, 43a
1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know what it was previously called. We can't discover the conne...
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