London Remembers
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The aim of this website is to document all the memorials in London. That's the plaques, monuments, statues, fountains, and that commemorate a person, an event, a building, and more. This website focuses on finding the memorials, photographing them, plotting them on a map, and logging them in a searchable database, thus providing a powerful research tool.
London Remembers
2d ago
{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
London Remembers
2d ago
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
London Remembers
4d ago
Dame Mary Quant, Kings Road, fashion designer, opened her boutique, Bazaar, on this site in 1955 ..read more
London Remembers
6d ago
Zepherina Veitch (1836 -1894)
Dame Rosalind Paget (1855 - 1948)
Pioneering midwives trained at the British Lying-in Hospital, founded 1739 and sited here, 1849 - 1913.
Seven Dials Trust ..read more
London Remembers
1w ago
{Inscribed in the granite frieze:}
Erected by public subscription 1884
{On a plaque facing east:}
Restored by the Council of the London Borough of Enfield with contributions from the customers of Marks and Spencer, Enfield, 1994.
{On a plaque facing west:}
Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Enfield in fondest memory of Henry Joshua (Jos) Brown, 1906 - 1983, past President of the Club and local horticulturist ..read more
London Remembers
1w ago
{Beneath the crest of the Royal Ballet School:}
The Bridge of Aspiration, the generous and symbolic gift to the Royal Ballet School donated by:
Thomas and Deirdre Lynch
John and Anya Sainsbury
Harry and Carol Djanogly
The Ashden Trust
Robert and Ricki Gail Conway
Charlotte Heber Percy
Christopher and Jo Holdsworth Hunt
The Mark Leonard Trust
The J J Charitable Trust
Simon and Virginia Robertson
The Mercers' Company
The Headley Trust
January 2003
This plaque marks the contribution of David Norman, Chairman of Governors of the Royal Ballet School, 2000 - 2009, to the development of the Royal Ba ..read more
London Remembers
1w ago
Oliver Goldsmith
Born Pallas Co. Longford, Ireland 1728. Died London 1774. Poet, novelist, playwright. Author of: The Deserted Village; The Vicar of Wakefield; She Stoops to Conquer.
"... who left scarcely any style of writing untouched and touched nothing that he did not adorn" - Samuel Johnson ..read more
London Remembers
1w ago
IOHANNES HICCOCKS
Magister in Cancellario
Vir
Integer Vitae in Forensi negotio
Inter severiores Iurisprudentiæ Litteras
Urbanitate Morum conspicuus
In rerum Civilium Vicissitudine
Civis Bonus, et Inconcussus
In labefacta Valetudine, et acutis doloribus
Sui potens, et Comes in amicos.
Curiam Suam penitus inspectam
Et exagitatas acerrime fraudum Latebras
Lucro apponebat:
Virtutis enim Intemeratæ suæ Famam stabilivit
Temerata Suspicio.
Obijt V. Apr. MDCCXXVI.
Ætat. LVIII.
{This Latin translates as:}
JOHN HICCOCKS
Master in Chancery
A man who was honest in life and in his dealings with the most s ..read more
London Remembers
2w ago
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
Parmiter Street Re-housing Scheme
This commemoration stone was laid by the Mayor Alderman Charles Wm. Hovell, JP, 11th September 1926.
Housing Committee:
Councillor W. Paddock - Chairman
Councillor H. E. Adams - Vice-Chairman
The Mayor
{A list of 3 Alderman, followed by a list of 13 Councillors, see Commemorated subjects for the names.}
E. C. P. Monson, FRIBA - Architect
W. Simms - Builders
David J. Keep - Town Clerk
A. E. Darby - Borough Engineer ..read more