Royal Navy Gunner, Street Musician and "King of the Buskers"
Lived with his family in the St Giles Rookery which was on this site — — Map (db m220741) HM
Bloomsbury Square
Sir Hans Sloane Trail
by Year 5, Holy Trinity C of E Primary School
this garden has been planted in honour of Sir Hans Sloane. Sir Hans Sloane was born in Killyleagh, County Down, in Ireland in the year 1660. He came to London . . . — — Map (db m130176) HM
Restoration of Bloomsbury Square
Originally known as Southampton Square Bloomsbury Square was one of London's first designed garden squares. It was initially laid out during the middle of the 17th Century, after Lord Southampton built Southampton . . . — — Map (db m121936) HM
Bloomsbury Square Physic Garden
Welcome to our garden in Bloomsbury Square. It's no ordinary garden; it is a physic garden. What's a physic garden? If you want to know more, read on!
A physic garden has plants with medicinal properties for . . . — — Map (db m130177) HM
In memory of the tens of thousands of British civilian and military personnel who suffered incarceration, many dying, in the Far East during the Second World War 1939 - 45, including those forced to labour on the Burma Railway. They ask for nothing . . . — — Map (db m120043) WM
The son of Jewish immigrants, Simmon lived here from the 1920s till 1940. He was posthumously awarded this highest medal for bravery when attempting to save the lives of three men in a burning barracks in Mogadishu, December 1944. . . . — — Map (db m188335) HM
Charles Dickens
Lived in a house on this
site
1824-1829
Later to be the home of
The David Copperfield
Childrens Library
1922-1932 — — Map (db m117151) HM
Here
Lived
Philip
Second Earl of Chesterfield
Born 1633 : Died 1713
also
Philip Third Earl
and
Philip Dormer
Fourth Earl of
Chesterfield K.G.
Born 1694 : Died 1773 — — Map (db m121934) HM
This building was formerly the
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
Built in 1890 and finally closed in 2002.
It was established by ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON
The first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain who created
a hospital in . . . — — Map (db m115542) HM
[Inscription on obelisk:]
In Memory of our Glorious Dead
[South side inscription:]
In grateful memory of 3719 men of the
London and Northwestern Railway Company
who for the country justice and freedom
served . . . — — Map (db m112270) WM
FRANCES TROLLOPE (1780-1863)
author, lived at 16 Keppel Street
near this site. Her sons, the authors
THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE
(1810-1892) and
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
(1815-1882)
were born there — — Map (db m120106) HM
Lived in this house between 1803 and 1810. Born in Caracas, Venezuela,
he was the forerunner of the
independence of the republics
of Latin America. Here he met
in 1810 The Liberator
Simon Bolivar.
Vivio en esta casa . . . — — Map (db m116575) HM
Friend at Hand was built in 1735 at the time of the Marylebone Road and adjoining Nash Terraces. The first ever omnibus service from Holborn stopped here. The original service of one coach each way was soon being increased to a dozen journeys per . . . — — Map (db m109813) HM
George
Padmore
1903-1959
aka Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse
International Activist
and Renowned
Pan Africanist
Lived here
1941-1957 — — Map (db m117153) HM
Born 28th. Sepr. 1740; Died 23rd.Sepr. 1824.
The Firm, Consistent, & Persevering Advocate
of
"UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE,
Equal Representation, Vote by Ballot,
AND ANNUAL PARLIAMENTS.
He was the . . . — — Map (db m115492) HM
84 Charing Cross Road
The Booksellers
Marks & Co.
Were on this site which
became world renowned
through the book by
Helene Hanff — — Map (db m122576) HM
The earliest record of the Museum Tavern was in 1723, although at that stage it was called "The Dog and Duck" after the hunting that took place in the surrounding Ponds and swamps. In 1759 the British Museum was established and the pub promptly . . . — — Map (db m109268) HM
(Front Panel:)
1914-1944
G.C., M.B.E.
Croix de Guerre
(Right Panel:)
Noor Inayat Khan was an SOE agent infiltrated into occupied France. She was executed at Dachau concentration camp. Her last word was . . . — — Map (db m115297) HM WM
Percy
Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822
Poet & Radical Thinker
&
Mary Shelley
1797-1851
Author of Frankenstein
lived in a house
on this site
1815-1816 — — Map (db m116106) HM
Chemistry Department
University College London
During the period 1930-1970
Professor Sir Christopher Ingold
pioneered our understanding of the
electronic basis of structure, mechanism
and reactivity in organic chemistry,
which is . . . — — Map (db m116440) HM
In Memory of
The Glorious Sacrifice
Offered by Prudential men
Who Fell in The Great War
1914 – 1919
We Are Bound to Give
Thanks Always to God
For You BrethrenBeloved of The Lord
II Thess. 2.13
For Ye are Our . . . — — Map (db m118262) WM
In
remembrance
of our comrades
who gave their
lives in the war
of 1939 - 45
( there are two memorials, one on each side of the entrance to the building ) — — Map (db m118263) WM
Indian Poet, Philosopher and
First Nobel Laureate from Asia
Unveiled by
HRH The Prince of Wales
7th July 2011
Sculpted by Shenda Amery
Installed by The Tagore Centre UK — — Map (db m145205) HM
Close to this place
Richard Trevithick
Born 1771 - Died 1833
Pioneer of
High Pressure Steam
ran in the year 1808 the
first steam locomotive
to draw passengers — — Map (db m110144) HM
In this house lived
in 1851
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poet and Painter
and from 1856 to 1859
William Morris
Poet and Artist
and
Sir Edward C. Burne-Jones
Painter — — Map (db m111362) HM
History
The Parish and Municipal Church of St. Pancras is dedicated to the Roman Boy Pancratius who was martyred by the Emperor Diocletian in the Year 304.
The old Church in Pancras Road is the oldest Building in the Borough dating in . . . — — Map (db m110932) HM
Sir Christopher Hatton (1540-1591), was Lord Chancellor of England and rumoured to be the lover of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1578 the Queen granted Christopher Hatton the grounds of Ely Palace on which Hatton House was built. In the 1600s Hatton . . . — — Map (db m118826) HM