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Caribbean carnival - Britain's first

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Claudia Jones organised the festival which took place inside the then St Pancras Town Hall in 1959. This festival was the forerunner to the Notting...

Greenwich Town Hall - first

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Jessica and Eric Huntley

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We thank Alan Patient for providing our photos.

St Bartholomew's Church Gatehouse

EC1

The restoration of this church was the first major work by Aston Webb. His brother, Edward, was churchwarden at the time. Webb and colleagues had t...

Vauxhall Motors factory

SW8

The first plaque was installed in 2003 by Vauxhall Motors at Sainsbury’s previous store on this site, to mark the centenary of the first sale of a ...

Clapham clock tower

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At the time this intersection was known as Clapham Cross. Lambeth have a photo of the unveiling, where we learnt that "The tower was dismantled an...

Marchioness at Southwark Cathedral

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Lambeth North station

SE1

The two plaques about the station are at eye level, on the right as you enter the station, just after the ticket barriers. The other two are high u...

International Hall

WC1

In our photo the plaque is lost behind the small newly-planted tree. It's now on a brick upright (whose only function is to display the plaque) at ...

The Angel, Enfield

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This plaque doesn't have a lot going for it. Marooned at a busy, polluted intersection, on the end of an elegant but truncated, terrace, a few of t...