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The aim of this website is to document all the memorials in London. That's the plaques, monuments, statues, fountains, etc, that commemorate a person, an event, a building, etc. It's an aim we don't think we will ever achieve but we will enjoy the attempt.
Memorial types
Fountain
148 memorials
Gates
21 memorials
Ghost bike
32 memorials
Ghost building
9 memorials
Keystone
27 memorials
Monument
340 memorials
Mural
100 memorials
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First intraocular lens implant
SE1, Westminster Bridge Road, St Thomas' Hospital
Wikimedia points out that "Harold Ridley and his theatre nurse (Mrs Doreen Ogg) both described the first implantation date as being on 29...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Mother Kate Homes
E2, Dunloe Street
The left hand edge of the plaque can just be seen in our photo, on the set-back wall towards the left. The whole block is occupied by St...
1 subject commemorated
Lewisham Hospital Out-Patients Department
SE13, Lewisham High Street, Lewisham Hospital Out-Patients Department
CI is the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, which ceased to be awarded after India's independence in 1947. It was only given to women...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Weil tree
W3, Acton Park
Two trees newly planted to the west of the main path through this park, near the south entrance. We photographed them in 2022 but there a...
1 subject commemorated
Moses + Shields tree
W3, Acton Park
Two trees newly planted to the west of the main path through this park, near the south entrance. We photographed them in 2022 but there a...
2 subjects commemorated
Latest Subjects
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Harold Ridley
Ophthalmologist. Born Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. Died in Salisbury, Wiltshire. In WW2, he treated Royal Air Force casualties with eye injuries. He noticed t...
1 memorial
Ansel Wong
A cultural and political activist, an educationist and academic. In a wide-ranging career has worked at senior levels in various organisations in the public and charitable sectors, including with t...
Person, Community / Clubs, Education, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands
1 memorial
Professor Laura Serrant, OBE, PHD, Queens Nurse
Laura Maria Serrant, CBE FRCN is a British nurse and academic. She is currently (2025) Regional Head of Nursing for North East and Yorkshire at Health Education England and Professor of at Manchest...
Person, Education, Medicine, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues
1 memorial
John Richards
Windrush Pioneer. Born Jamaica. Aged 19, he travelled to the US to work on Louisiana farms. In 1948 he emigrated on the Windrush to the UK. On arrival he was one of the 256 migrants housed in Claph...
1 memorial
Alford Gardner
Windrush Pioneer.聽Alford Dalrymple Gardner was a Jamaican-born "Windrush generation" emigrant and co-founder of the first Caribbean cricket club in Britain. Served in the RAF in WW2. The Guardian,...
1 memorial
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Lost and Relocated Memorials
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Puzzle-corner
Royal Festival Hall
A 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre. The only remaining building from the Festival of Britain and the first post-war building to be protected with a Grade 1 Listing,...
1 memorial