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London Remembers is a website aiming to capture all memorials in London

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Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard, world renowned star, over 90 feature films 1944 - 1988.
Commemorating the centenary of cinema, 1996.
In association with the British Film Institute.

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/11920
Ceramic map of rail lines - Suburban
Ceramic map of rail lines - Suburban

We're cheating a bit here.  This close-up photo shows the key from the System map which has an additional 3 items: Harbour for Yachts, Military Stations, Castles.

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/14267
Ceramic maps - plaque
Ceramic maps - plaque

London Victoria Station Historic Tiled Maps
These hand-painted ceramic line maps were made in 1899 for the London Brighton & South Coast Railway as part of an ambitious extension for the station and adjacent hotel, led by the railway's chief engineer Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan. One map shows the whole network and the other the suburban lines. Some of the branch lines and stations no longer exist. In the post-war era the images were damaged but in 2024 they were restored.

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/14386
Grace Goldie
Grace Goldie

Grace Wyndham Goldie, 1900 - 1986, BBC executive and pioneer of political coverage on television, lived in Flat 86 from 1935.
English Heritage

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/13548
Betsi Cadwaladr
Betsi Cadwaladr

Betsi Cadwaladr, 1789 - 1860
"Y Ffyddlonaf o Nyrsys Ei Mawrhudi"
"The Faithfulest of Her Majesty's Nurses"

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/13597
sewer lamp
sewer lamp

{On a plaque attached to the nearby railings:}
The adjacent street light is the last remaining sewer gas destructor lamp in the City of Westminster.  Installed in association with Sir Joseph Bazalgette's revolutionary Victoria Embankment sewer, which opened in 1870, this cast iron ornamental lamp standard with original lantern continues to burn off residual biogas.

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/13262
Woodberry Wetland Nature Reserve
Woodberry Wetland Nature Reserve

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 Water, London Borough of Hackney.

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/13143
Charles Laughton - Elstree
Charles Laughton - Elstree

Charles Laughton, winner of best actor 'Oscar', The Private Life of Henry VIII, B. & D. Studios, Elstree 1933.
Commemorating the centenary of cinema 1996.
In association with the the British Film Institute.

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/11917
Union of Post Workers headquarters
Union of Post Workers headquarters

Union of Post Office Workers HQ, built 1937, converted to apartments by Galliard Homes, 2016.
The Clapham Society

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/11931
A.S. Jasper
A.S. Jasper

A. S. Jasper (1905 - 1970) author of the classic East End autobiography "A Hoxton Childhood", lived and wrote in this house for much of his life.
Waltham Forest Heritage

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/11597
Paddington Station - HS1 award
Paddington Station - HS1 award

{Beneath the High Speed 1 logo:}
The HS1 Station Environment Award, presented to Network Rail for Paddington Station Span 4, by Simon Jenkins, Chairman of the National Trust.
2012
National Railway Heritage Awards
www.nrha.org.uk

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/12739
Stones on Time Life building
Stones on Time Life building

All the Listing has to say about this sculpture is: "On the west elevation is a raised geometrical abstract form in tooled stone." Not even the name of the sculptor.

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/14491