Walking down a small side street (Carting Lane) down the side of the Savoy Theatre in central London, you glance to your left a see a small green plaque on the wall which points out that the Savoy...
CITY OF WESTMINSTER ON THE SITE NOW OCCUPIED BY THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES I WAS ERECTED THE ORIGINAL QUEEN ELEANOR'S CROSS A REPLICA OF WHICH STANDS IN FRONT OF CHARING CROSS STATION MILEAGES...
Not much of a crowd around this plaque, off a sidestreet in central London “Martin Van Buren [] Eight U.S. President Lived Here” http://openplaques.org/plaques/544
[plimsoll circle] SAMUEL PLIMSOLL BORN 1824 - DIED 1898 ERECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF SEAMEN. IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION FOR HIS SERVICES TO THE MEN OF THE SEA....
ENGLISH HERITAGE HERMAN MELVILLE 1819 - 1891 Author of Moby Dick lived here in 1849
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The plaque on the rear of the Theatre Royal records that Wilde's plays "a woman of no importance" and "an ideal husband" were first performed here. For context see TQ2980 : Suffolk Street,...
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1836 - W.S.GILBERT - 1911 PLAYWRIGHT & POET. HIS FOE WAS FOLLY & HIS WEAPON WIT. TRAGEDY COMEDY
English Heritage: In this house THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD was founded in 1848.
Cleopatra's Needle is flanked by two faux- Egyptian sphinxes, designed by the English architect George John Vulliamy. The sphinxes are cast in bronze and bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that...
Cleopatra's Needle in London is one of three similar named Egypian obelisks and is located in the City of Westminster, on theVictoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges. It is close to the...
On erection of the obelisk in 1878, a time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal containing: a set of 12 photographs of the best-looking English women of the day, a box of...
The obelisk remained in Alexandria until 1877 when Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, a distinguished anatomist and dermatologist, sponsored its transportation to London from Alexandria at a...
The effort almost met with disaster on 14 October 1877, in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, when the Cleopatra began wildly rolling, and became uncontrollable. The Olga sent out a rescue boat with...
The plaque was affixed just inside the outer entrance to the hotel in March 2008, proclaiming: The Royal Air force was formed and had its first headquarters here in the former Hotel Cecil...
Outside the Athenaeum Club there is an unassuming stone block installed in 1830 to help an ageing Duke of Wellington mount his horse. THIS HORSE BLOCK WAS ERECTED BY DESIRE OF THE DUKE...