'Danny' Reidar Farr (lost) at Westbourne Grove, W2. Commemorates Cyclist deaths and 'Danny' Reidar Farr.

Charles Bradlaugh - N1, plaque at Malcolm House, Regan Way, N1. Commemorates Charles Bradlaugh. Inscription: Charles Bradlaugh, freethinker & politician, Malthusian & republican, born near this site a...

As we took the close-up photo of the panel we were aware that we had effectively stepped backwards onto the 'stage' of a street performer. But we were in his background, as were other passers-by, so w...

Historians don't think the Mayflower was berthed here or loaded passengers here. It was probably berthed at the other side of the Rotherhithe pennisular.

North American Sweet Gum trees donated by the citizens of Westminster to commemorate those lives lost on 11th September 2001 in the United States of America and as a token of friendship between our re...

This 2003 text assumes that the Lord Mayor is male, even though Mary Donaldson held the office in 1983-4. It also refers to the location of the Museum of London, so perhaps when they correct that they...

{Beneath a hippopotamus and a pair of sculls:} On this site stood Searle's Boathouse, the first home of Leander Club, founded in 1818 and based in Henley-on-Thames since 1896. This stone was placed by...

Even with the raised perspective achieved by standing on the surrounding wall, our photo does not show the all-important shapes of the flowerbeds. The much more informative aerial photo comes from Voi...

These two fine character actors both presented a distinctly British eccentricity. They worked together in The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950).

Following the 1937 demolition of the house the whereabouts of the plaque is unknown.

The plaque was removed but it's not known when this happened. The London County Council's collection of index cards held by the London Archives in Clerkenwell has an annotation recording that the plaq...

Other photographs of the house show the plaque on the left (west) face, between the nearest two ground floor windows. The building, along with the rest of Serjeants' Inn, was destroyed by WW2 bombs. ...

When we first photographed this boat, May 2021, it was in a slightly run-down state. By August 2022 it had been repainted. This obliterated the name of the ship on the prow but perhaps there are plans...

This chocolate brown encaustic plaque was erected in 1905 but, informed of the impending demolition of the house, the LCC retrieved it.  In the photo of the house we think you can see where it was: be...

Unveiled by Richard Attenborough.

In the latter part of the 1910s, at the suggestion of the LCC, the City of London Corporation, the owners of the building and grounds, put this plaque on Fry's house, The Cedars.  Its current brick 'p...

The stone beneath the main panel names the Anemoi the Greek gods of the four winds - Boreas the North-Wind, Zephyrus the West, Notus the South, and Eurus the East. Each of these was associated with a ...

This Hopton Wood stone plaque is in the same style as the Charles Dickens 1911 plaque. It was initiated shortly after Chamberlain's death but only erected after 5 years delay.

In memory of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS, LLD, etc, statesman, administrator and naturalist: founder of the colony and city of Singapore, January 29th 1819. Born July 5th 1781. Died at Highwood, ...

This image comes from the opening credit sequence of the 1943 Humphrey Jennings documentary film 'Fires Were Started'.  Actually, we were watching 'I Was a Fireman', Jennings's first cut of the film w...

Those involved in the campaign to raise funds to erect this slate memorial include: Abney Park Trust, Sharon Wright (journalist and author of “The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts”), Hackney Council...

Note the English Heritage-like logo.

The garden has many of these steel double plaques, mostly not commemorative. Initially we read this as 'Blackfeet' and wondered how a tribe of native Americans in Montana fitted into the Windrush sto...

{Main plaque, around pictures of Gresley and Flying Scotsman and Mallard locomotives:} Sir Nigel Gresley 1876 - 1941. Sir Nigel Gresley lived in Hadley Wood in 1923 - 29 and used this station daily. H...

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Peter Paillou, 1712 - 1782, eminent bird artist who illustrated Pennant's 'The British Zoology', portraying in colour all known British species for the first time, lived in this house, 1776 - 1780. Th...

This plaque to the Russian Csar was erected on the wrong building. In 1881 it was the received wisdom that Peter the Great had lived at No.15 and so the Society of Arts erected the plaque here. The ...

Smith's statue originally had this inscription on its base: T. Kirk R.H.A. Sculpt. Dublin.

At 4 Panton Street was the Headquarters of the mostly Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women's organisation, The 43 Group. They confronted the British neo-fascist movement in 1946-50 and early 1960s to rid Br...

Welcome to Woolwich {In the lower section, as if graffiti:} Granada Cinema - 1935, Bingo – 1960, Christ Faith Tabernacle – 2011

Just look at those jaunty digits. The photo of the plaque was taken by the Greater London Council in 1973 and is published with the permission of The London Archives. TLA reference code SC/PHL/02/125...

Our interest is of course the plaque behind the group of nurses, at the right, but this is largely illegible and does not provide the date, nor even the name of the building.  So we searched the photo...

Erected in or around 1897, when Hennell the architect was only 25.

Unveiled by Michael Mainelli.

Gunnersbury Park opened for the use of the public 21st May 1926 by the Right Hon. Neville Chamberlain, M.P. Minister of Health. Purchased by the Town Councils of Acton and Ealing, one fourth of the co...

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This headstone was installed by the Royal College of Nursing and the Welsh health board that shares Betsi's name.

London Wildlife Trust This plaque celebrates the opening of Woodberry Wetland Nature Reserve by Sir David Attenborough, 30th April 2016, with thanks to: Berkeley Homes, Heritage Lottery Fund, Thames W...

The first plaque commemorating Freud at 20 Maresfield Gardens was erected by the London County Council and unveiled by his daughter Anna in 1956, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth. Issues...

This sculpture had been displayed at the Festival of Britain but was then lost. It was found in 2016 languishing in the garden of the Clarendon Hotel in Blackheath. After restoration it was, in 2019, ...

Unveiled by Alan Johnson, MP, who had worked in the building for several years when he was General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers.

The sign is decorated with Lily of the Valley, a favourite flower of the Queen's. The site of the Queen's actual birthplace is a short walk to the west.

This plaque has replaced this one.

{Beneath the crest of the Great Central Railway:} This plaque commemorates the 200th birthday on 26 September 2019 of Sir Edward Watkin who created the Great Central Railway and its London terminal, M...

If they'd used 'dramatist' the plaque creators would have avoided the temptation of misspelling 'playwright'. Even in American 'playwrite' is not correct.

Neil A. Armstrong

Apparently there is an identical plaque on the other side of the building.