Image source: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
In the January 2025 the creator wrote: "I shared a house with friends who regularly looked after a pampered dachshund called Geoffrey. He had even appeared in Vogue, so I am told. I’m not sure whether my decision to prematurely memorialise Geoffrey’s departure was out of disdain for his bourgeois lifestyle but his plot had been reserved within the Houndsditch pet cemetery."
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Geoffrey Barkington
The memorial is a bench, and is one of ten new ones in the City of London. Th...
Founded by John Courage at the Anchor Brewhouse site. Â The earliest existing building dates from 1871 and was largely rebuilt in 1894 - 1895. Reconstructed, restored and refurbished in 1985 - 1989....
232 dogs died in 1902 as a result of medical experiments. Wikipedia gives: "In 1875 there were around 300 experiments on animals in the UK, a figure that had risen to 19,084 in 1903 when the brown...
Born Bristol (and/or found as a stray, sources differ). Â Mixed breed with a reputation for nipping visitor's legs, hence the name. His owner, Mark Barraud (1848-1887) worked as a scenery designer i...
Artist, writer and sheep breeder. Born Helen Beatrix Potter at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington where she lived in the third floor nursery until she was in her thirties. She used her second name ...
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