London Remembers | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
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The aim of this website is to document all the memorials in London. That's the plaques, monuments, statues, fountains, etc, that commemorate a person, an event.
London Remembers | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
2d ago
Willesden Green Library was established in 1894 following a poll of the ratepayers of Willesden ..read more
London Remembers | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
2d ago
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
London Remembers | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
2d ago
{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
London Remembers | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
4d ago
On this site Susan Garth launched London's first antiques market making the Portobello Road an international institution ..read more
London Remembers | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
1w ago
Iyengar Yoga Institute of South London opened on the 76th birthday of our beloved guruji, 14th December 1994 ..read more
London Remembers | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
1w 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 | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
1w 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 | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
1w ago
Dame Mary Quant, Kings Road, fashion designer, opened her boutique, Bazaar, on this site in 1955 ..read more
London Remembers | Aiming to capture all memorials in London
1w ago
... L. S. ...
.... by the vestry ..read more