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{in Latin} THIS IMAGE OF THE EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD ILLIVUS WILLIAM HARVEY WHO FIRST SHOWED THE BLOOD CIRCUIT AND INSISTED A RATIONAL MEDICINE TO THE PICTURE OF THE ARCHETYPE.
THE SCULPTOR WILL BE PLACED HERE BY RICHARDVS MEAD MED. REC. 1839
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William Babington 1756-1833 by William Behnes 1831 Presented by the Committee for Raising a Monument to the Memory of Dr Babington in St Paul's
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Dame Cicely Saunders (1918-2005) by Nigel Boonham, 2001 Bronze Cicely Saunders was the visionary pioneer of the hospice movement. She devoted her life to ensuring that terminally ill people could die with dignity and without pain.
Today there are about 220 hospices in the United Kingdom and more than 8,000 around the world. Dame Cicely's work helped to change society's attitude to what was regarded as the Western world's last taboo.
As she said: "You matter because you are you, and you matter to the last moment of your life."
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Saint Pancras Middlesex. This fountain and works connected therewith were presented to the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association on the 3d day of August 1878 by Matilda wife of Richard Kent esq. Junior Churchwarden 1878. The figure now cast in bronze was designed by Joseph Durham ARA {roman date unreadable}
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This bust of President Kennedy by the American sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was unveiled on the 15th May 1965 by his brother Senator Robert Kennedy. This memorial was subscribed for by over 50,000 readers of the Sunday Telegraph in amounts limited to £1.
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The men from the service of the Metropolitan Railway Company whose names are inscribed below were among those who, at the call of King and country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom.
Let those who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten.
1914 - 1918
Erected by the directors, officers and staff of the railway.
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Vestry of St Pancras
This stone was fixed on the 11th day of August 1877 by The Right Honourable Gerard James Noel PC, MP., First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings at whose suggestion a part of the royal demesne Regents Park was given up for this great public improvement, assisted by
William Thornton, George Alfred Nodes - Churchwardens
James Hoppey - Chair
Thomas Bentley Westacott - Deputy Chairman of the General Purposes Committee
upon the direction of which committee the plans of this bridge were designed and prepared for the vestry of St Pancras by
William Booth Scott, member of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineer
Kirk & Randall - Contractors
Thomas Eccleston Gibb - Vestry Clerk
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Water Meeting Bridge. Re-built by the St Pancras Metropolitan Borough Council and opened by His Worship The Mayor of St Pancras, Councillor T R Morris, JP on 22nd November 1961.
Alderman Harold P. Bastie - Chairman Highways Committee
C. S. Bainbridge MPGB, FRICS, MIMunL.- Borough Engineer & Surveyor
L. G. Mouchel & Partners Ltd - Engineers
James Crosby & Sons Ltd - Contractors
R. C. E. Austin, LLM - Town Clerk
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Vestry of St Pancras Gloucester Gate Bridge and Approach Road
This bridge and approach road was opened for public traffic on the 3rd day of August 1878 by Field Marshal, HRH the Duke of Cambridge, GCB, KP, GCS, GCNB, Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, Colonel in Chief of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, 17th Lancers, 60th Rifles and 77th Regiment. Commanding in Chief the Forces.
George Alfred Nodes, Richard Kent - Churchwardens
Frederick George Baker, Chairman, James Balfour, Deputy Chairman - of the Highways and Public Works Committee
I have no information about Railway deaths tree. Please contact me if you do.
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In memory of the travelling public and Railway Workers, who lost their lives or were injured whilst travelling on the railways or working for the railway industry.
This tree was planted by the rail unions ASLEF, RMT and TSSA on the 29 March 2001, 'International Rail Safety Day.'
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Dedicated on September 9th 2010 on the 70th anniversary of the London Blitz. In loving memory of our father Pinkus Nirenstein, brother Phillip and sister Freda, her fiancé Morris Wolkind and the seven other people who lost their lives when a bomb destroyed 35 Harrington Square on September 9th 1940.
On behalf of Sophie, wife to Pinkus, and the siblings that survived: Phyllis Hillel, David Niren, Lily Mitchell, their children and grandchildren.
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{on the back of the plinth} This statue was erected in honour of Gertrude & Harold Baillie Weaver by the National Council for Animal Welfare with the generous co-operation of the sculptor. 1931 {on the front of the plinth} To all protectors of the defenceless.
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The ramp up to the towpath opposite this wall is one of a pair either side of the railway bridge and was used to rescue horses which when startled by the trains sometimes bolted and fell into the canal (note - the long shot is approximate, cannot find the original plaque 08/2022)
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A.M.D.G. This church was built in 1819-1822 as the new parish church of the ancient parish of St Pancras under an act of 31 May 1816. The foundation stone was laid on Thursday 1 July 1819 by H.R.H. Frederick Duke of York and Albany (brother of King George IV) and commander-in-chief of the British army, The new church was consecrated on Tuesday 7 May 1822 by the Rt Rev William Howley, Lord Bishop of London....
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In memory of L.C. T.H. Shorter, Pte F. Angelone, Pte J Masson & Pte A. Trimlet who died while on active service in South Africa with The Volunteer Service Company 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regt. This tablet is erected by their comrades of the service Co, Officers, NCO & men of the 17t Middx R.V.C.
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This church was re-dedicated on Monday 14 December 1955 by the Rt Rev & Rt Hon Dr J.W.C. Wand Lord Bishop of London, after new roofing & extensive restoration. It had been closed as a dangerous structure on 13 May 1951 in view of widespread dry rot.....
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in memory of Alfred Frederick Cleave a private in this regiment and also in the 13th Middlesex (Paddington) V.R. Son of Alfred and Charlotte Cleave of this parish. He died at Springfontein August 22nd 1900 during the South African campaign aged 22 years