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25 years since the world changed on 11 September. With Grosvenor Square finally reopened this memorial plaque can be seen again.

Westminster - 9/11 sweet gums

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...

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Our late queen died 4 years ago today. The Jubilee Walkway is a wonderful commemoration.

Jubilee Walkway start - pyramid

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...

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On the nautical theme: Not many anchors on the streets of London. This one at the Brazilian Naval Commission, 170 Upper Richmond Road.

The Totally Thames Festival begins today. This plaque was erected by people who enjoy a good mess about in boats.

Searle's Boathouse

{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...

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International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: we publish this unusual memorial in Brent.

The Anchor, The Drum, The Ship

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...

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Alastair Sim (who refused a knighthood) died 50 years ago today.

Margaret Rutherford and Alastair Sim - Elstree

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

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De Quincy was born today in 1785. His brief home in Soho had a plaque but it was lost in 1937 when the block was redeveloped.

De Quincey - W1

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

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This plaque was erected 120 years ago today, but was lost, probably on a dark and stormy night.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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...

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John Thadeus Delane edited The Times for over 30 years, while living in one of the 2 Sergeants' Inns.

John Thadeus Delane

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. ...

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This lifeboat arrived at a north London school in 1991, 35 years ago, today.

William Henry and Mary King lifeboat

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...

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One of these little cats is playing with an outsized butterfly. Hemingford Road, N1.

Coleridge died on this day in 1834. His Berners Street commemoration has kept the plaque authorities busy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - W1 - first plaque

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...

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Film actor and director, Bryan Forbes, born 100 years ago today.

Bryan Forbes

Unveiled by Richard Attenborough.

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Why put your post code on the front of your house? Is this a thing?

Elizabeth Fry lived in West Ham for 14 years. Plaque is official, but unusual and little-known.

Elizabeth Fry - E7

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...

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Sailors needed somewhere to live when they were in port. The memorial stone was laid 125 years ago.

Passmore Edwards Sailors' Palace

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 ...

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Joseph Chamberlain was born at this house 90 years ago today. The LCC put up 3 plaques to him shortly after his death - very unusual.

Joseph Chamberlain - SE5

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.

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Founder of modern Singapore, Raffled died 200 years ago today, on his birthday.

Sir Stamford Raffles - burial site - pillar plaque

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, ...

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Back before the US Declaration of Independence, there were merchants in the City of London trading with our American colonies. The new American Square (1770) was named for them and this obelisk erected.

Lost obelisk - American Square

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...

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Today, 100 ago, in Islington, Margaret Graham made the first solo balloon flight by a British woman.

Margaret Graham

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...

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