Mydiddee
SE8, Deptford High Street, St Paul's Churchyard
Caroline's Miscellany has an excellent post on Mydiddee. Â We hope she won't mind if we quote her: "Bligh paid for Mydiddee's funeral and ...
3 subjects commemorated
PC Stephen Tibble
W14, Charleville Road, 20 Charleville Mansions
Here fell P.C. Stephen Tibble, 26th February 1975. {Below is the badge of the Metropolitan Police.}
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Gilt of Cain - Slave trade
EC3, Fen Court
This sculpture, 'Gilt of Cain', was unveiled by Bishop Tutu in commemoration of the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic sla...
4 subjects commemorated,
7 creators
Edith S. Kerrison
E15, The Grove
Unveiled by Will Thorne MP, as part of the week-long celebrations of the jubilee of the incorporation of the Borough of West Ham.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Stratford Martyrs
E15, Broadway, St John’s Church
The event on 27 June 1556 was a big draw: "These 11 men and 2 women were brought, pinioned, from Newgate and suffered death here in the p...
24 subjects commemorated,
5 creators
Lynch Green Martyrs
UB8, Windsor Street, St Margaret's Burial Ground
This stone was erected in 1955 in memory of Robert Smith, John Denley & Patrick Packingham, who were burnt at the stake on Lynch Gree...
4 subjects commemorated
1908 Olympics
W12, Wood Lane, 201, BBC building
The unveiling was hosted by BBC Director-General Mark Thompson and attended by Sir Stephen Redgrave.
3 subjects commemorated
Tsunami memorial
SW7, Cromwell Road, Natural History Museum, Darwin Centre garden
120-tonne block of granite, 4.1 metre cube with a corner removed. According to Handy Shipping Guide this was the "biggest transportatio...
157 subjects commemorated,
5 creators
Gerard Manley Hopkins - E15
E15, The Grove, Stratford Library
Seamus Heaney unveiled the plaque and performed at a poetry reading later in Stratford Town Hall as part of the celebrations for the 150t...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
East Anglians - WW1
EC2, Liverpool Street Station
{Inscribed on the large stone medallion:} This memorial to the men of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire who fell in the Great Wa...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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