Don Luigi Sturzo, 1871 - 1959, Italian political leader, lived here in exile from Italy between 1926 and 1933 as a guest of his friends Barbara Barclay Carter and Cicely M. Marshall. City of Westminster Comune di Caltagirone ..read more

In honour of all those killed and injured in the bombings of April 1999 in Soho, Brixton and Brick Lane. Tower Hamlets Mayor of Tower Hamlets ..read more

Willesden Green Library was established in 1894 following a poll of the ratepayers of Willesden ..read more

We think that hiding below hundreds of layers of whitewash is a fine relief bust of Shakespeare. This is at the top of the pargeting (decorative plasterwork) in the pediment ..read more

{Nameplate on the base of the bust:} Marcus Mosiah Garvey 1887 - 1940 {Panel next to the bust:} "Are you an African or a Jamaican?" "I will not give up a continent for an island!" Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. 17th August 1887 - 10th June 1940 Marcus Garvey was a prominent pan-African politician, entrepreneur and orator. Pan-Africanism is a movement which promotes solidarity between people of African heritage. Garvey dedicated his life to promoting the empowerment of African people everywhere in a form of Pan-African philosophy that became known as 'Garveyism'. Garvey lived in London between 1912 ..read more

On this site Susan Garth launched London's first antiques market making the Portobello Road an international institution ..read more

Established 1866 ..read more

Iyengar Yoga Institute of South London opened on the 76th birthday of our beloved guruji, 14th December 1994 ..read more

{Stencil on the road:} Another needless cyclist death {Notice attached to the bike:} Cyclist killed in crash was kindest person - family. A family has paid tribute to a woman who died in a road collision in central London as "the kindest person in the room". Cheistha Kochhar, 33, died following a collision with a lorry while cycling in Clerkenwell Road, near the junction with Farringdon Road, on 19 March. The Indian national was a PhD scholar at the London School of Economics (LSE), her family said in a statement. No arrests have been made and inquires are ongoing, the Metropolitan Police sai ..read more

Grove Buildings Erected in 1909 by the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea on land presented by Earl Cadogan KG. Mayor Christopher Head, JP Chairman of Housing Committee: W. J. Mulvey, FRCVS Architects: Wills & Anderson Town Clerk: T. Holland Medical Officer of Health: L. C. Parkes, MD Contractors: Gathercole Bros ..read more