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Tea trade - St Katharine Docks

Tea trade - St Katharine Docks

E1, St Katharine Docks, Commodity Quay

London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Qu...

3 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Commodity Quay

Commodity Quay

E1, St Katharine Docks, Commodity Quay

London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Qu...

1 subject commemorated
Charlotte Despard

Charlotte Despard

SW11, 177 Lavender Hill, 177, Battersea Labour Party HQ

From Penelope J. Corfield: this was unveiled "exactly one hundred years after the date when she stood as the Labour Party candidate in No...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Jonathan Tyers

Jonathan Tyers

SE1, Tyers Gate

The plaque can be seen in our photo, over to the right, buried in the hedge.

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Electricity Committee

Electricity Committee

NW6, Salusbury Road, 131

In the gables are two substantial relief plaques, on the left: "DWC, 1902", on the right: a coat of arms which we found at Heraldry of th...

2 creators
Fred Kormis sculpture

Fred Kormis sculpture

NW6, Queen's Park

Donated to Queen’s Park by Reg Freeson.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
King's Cross Cinema - rock concerts

King's Cross Cinema - rock concerts

WC1, King's Cross Bridge, Scala

Promoter Tony Defries hired King's Cross Cinema, now Scala, for July 14-15, 1972, to put on the successive London debuts of Lou Reed and ...

4 subjects commemorated
Wallace drinking fountain

Wallace drinking fountain

W1, Manchester Square, Hertford House, The Wallace Collection

The plaque explains why this fountain look so familiar to anyone who has walked around Paris. In 1872 Wallace donated 50 drinking fountai...

5 creators
Little Dorrit gate

Little Dorrit gate

SE1, Little Dorrit Court, Playground

The quoted text comes at the end of Chapter 13 of 'Little Dorrit' by Charles Dickens, the 'him' being Arthur Clennam. The Victorian Socie...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Peabody tenants

Peabody tenants

SE1, Blackfriars Road

This is an odd little obelisk, with minimal information. We wonder if the form is intended to recall the obelisk at nearby St George's Ci...

1 subject commemorated
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