A watch house was an early form of local police station but we've heard it said that this particular watch-house did at one time shelter the guards charged with preventing grave-robbing in the St Sepulchre graveyard. This is the last City of London watch-house standing.
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Watch-house in Giltspur Street
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Other Subjects
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Lance Corporal Arthur Bernard Kitchener
Arthur Bernard Kitchener was born out of wedlock on 1 June 1887 at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, 189-191, Marylebone Road, NW1. This was a 'Lying-in Hospital' and catered for unmarried moth...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
T. W. Page
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
15th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
1,240 members fell while serving with the regiment in the Great War. The battalion has served in several guises over the years including as the 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (Civil Service Rifle...
3 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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John Logie Baird
Born in "The Lodge" in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Inventor of mechanical television. Picture of him demonstrating a prototype at Selfridges, 1925. Died in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
8 memorials
Blewcoat School SW1 - charity boy
SW1, Caxton Street, Blewcoat School
2015 - an information board has been added: Erected in 1709, Blewcoat School is built of red and yellow brick with rubbed brick and stone...
2 subjects commemorated
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