memorials

200 years after the author was born, there is still no public statue of Dickens in the UK.

One of London’s most poignant memorials is stolen.

A much-loved London website gets a relaunch.

Today’s ‘what the hell is wrong with people’ post.

Planning a blue plaque perambulation? That task just got easier thanks to a new map.

If we had a nickel for every blog post (even books) urging us to look up above eye level in London, we’d have…well, whatever a nickel is worth, times about a thousand. But all clichés have some truth to them. One place where it’s easy …

“Try stealing me.” London’s battle with the burglars of bronze took a sad blow last week as a couple of memorials to fallen World War soldiers and civilians were taken from a monument in Broomfield Park, Enfield. The alloy is much prized on the scrap …

Cenotaph. Unlikely to be nicked. Image by wallyg “At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.” Only, it looks like we won’t unless the bits of stone and bronze that help us to remember are properly recorded. The …

Wandsworth Council will make like a set of 18th Century teeth and cover the borough in green plaques. The distinctive discs will embellish the homes and work places of famous former Wandsworthites. Just like Blue Plaques. But green. The list of potential dedicatees is impressive: …

Everyone’s favourite (not-so-)hidden gem, the wall of tragic heroes in Postman’s Park, has its first new memorial plaque since Edwardian times. A fresh inscription commemorates Leigh Pitt, who drowned in Thamesmead in 2007 while attempting to save a struggling child. The Watts Memorial records 47 …