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Shakespeare House

E9

The brick pier built to display these rescued plaques is behind the railings, at the right of our photo. Until we did the research we assumed that...

Sir John Wolfe Barry - Tower Bridge

SE1

Thomas More - N4

N4

There are sculpted lions couchant on a number of entrance piers in this area, one just to the right, outside our photo, and a pair at each of the t...

Emmeline Pankhurst and daughters

WC1

The CNJ reports that "In 1891, a three-night conference of the Women’s Franchise League was held at 8 Russell Square." And reminds us that the whol...

Brooke House

E5

British History Online 1 gives a full history of this house which in the Tudor period was also known as King's House or King's Place.  British His...

Paddington Bear and Windrush

W2

Nipper - buried

KT1

The plaque is to the right, inside the door.

Nipper Alley

KT1

The alley runs down the side of the former Empire theatre, which opened in 1910. What remains of the theatre is now a public house, but the alley c...

George Webb's Dixielanders

DA7

The plaque is in the pub's beer garden, out the back.

Ship Inn - Victoria's Golden Jubilee

EC3

Built in 1887 (on the site of a previous pub building) this exuberant pub added a memorial to the Queen's Golden Jubilee to all its other embellish...