Erection date: 2017
PC Alfred Smith, 1880 - 1917, was killed at this site saving factory workers during a WW1 air raid, 13 June 1917.
London Borough of Islington - Islington People's Plaque
EC1, Central Street, 43-45
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
From Islington Tribune: "PC Smith heard the German Gotha G.V aircraft approac...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
How exciting - a hidden passageway! For more secret tunnels see William Lyttle, the Mole man.
College of General Practitioners Sir James MacKenzie F.R.S., 1853 - 1925, physician, lived and worked here, 1907 - 1911.
These two plaques tell a complex story which we only fully understood once we found this UCL paper. Erskine Clarke, vicar of St Mary's C...
London County Council Robert Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 1830 - 1903, Prime Minister, lived here.
1907 was the year that a regular transatlantic radio-telegraph service begun and the year that Marconi was recognised with a Nobel Prize....
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