1872 - 1884: This building housed Beckenham's first volunteer fire brigade, using a cart pulled by horses borrowed from nearby residents and traders whenever a fire broke out. The lion's head spout was used to refresh the horses with water piped from the Thames by the then Lambeth Water Company.
Erected at the millennium by Copers Cope Area Residents' Association

This garden celebrates the contribution of the myriad Black feet which walked upon this and other lands. In particular the descendants of pioneers who travelled filled with hope from the Caribbean in 1948 on board MV Empire Windrush, helping to establish multi-cultural Britain.

{Either side of a portrait bust of Charles Jones:}
Charles Jones 1830
M.Inst.C.E., F.S.I. 1913

{Below the bust, the following text either side of the Ealing Council crest and the motto, Respice Prospice:}
Fifty yrs surveyor and engineer to the Ealing Local Authority from 25 May 1863 until his decease 24 Aug 1913.
Lamented, regretted.
Circumspice

{Main plaque, around pictures of Gresley and Flying Scotsman and Mallard locomotives:}
Sir Nigel Gresley 1876 - 1941.
Sir Nigel Gresley lived in Hadley Wood in 1923 - 29 and used this station daily. He designed powerful, elegant and fast locomotives, including the world-famous Flying Scotsman and Mallard, which still holds the world speed record for steam locomotives. They were the first truly high speed trains.

This plaque was commissioned in 2016 by The Hadley Wood Rail User Group and The Gresley Society Trust.

{Small plaque below:}
Plaque unveiled 7th October 2017 by Michael Portillo.

On the occasion of his retirement. Richard Evans: day-brightener, joke-juggler, eco-explorer, poem-preacher, yellow-yodeller, inspirational-Tetherdowner, Deputy Headteacher.
01.01.1992 - 31.08.2021

Peter Paillou, 1712 - 1782, eminent bird artist who illustrated Pennant's "The British Zoology", portraying in colour all known British species for the first time, lived in this house, 1776 - 1780.
The Huguenot Society

Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, lived here.
Erected by the Society of Arts

William Smith, 1769 - 1839, "Father of English Geology" made the first geological map of an entire country - England and Wales - in 1815. Lived on this site 1804 -1819.
City of Westminster
The Geological Society of London 2015

Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919 - 1991) prima ballerina assoluta, lived here.
The Theatre and Film Guild

{On the plinth:}
Sir S. Smith.

{On the plinth:}
Exmouth

{Below the star of David:}
This Ridley Road plaque marks a key site where the mainly Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women anti-Fascist organisation, The 43 Group, confronted the British neo-Fascist movement in 1946-50 and early 1960s to rid Britain of anti-Semitism and all hatred.

Be strong and of good courage. (Joshua 1:9)

(The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation UK Branch and AJEX UK)

At 4 Panton Street was the Headquarters of the mostly Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women's organisation, The 43 Group. They confronted the British neo-fascist movement in 1946-50 and early 1960s to rid Britain of anti-Semitism and all hatred.

Be strong and of good courage. (Joshua 1:9)

(The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation UK Branch and AJEX UK)

Hammersmith pumping station was built by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1909. It formed part of a complex of earlier waterworks buildings begun around a century earlier by the West Middlesex Waterworks Company and their engineer, William Tierney Clarke, designer of the first Hammersmith Bridge. The pumping station was decommissioned in 1997.
Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Building Group
2011

Welcome to Woolwich
{In the lower section, as if graffiti:}
Granada Cinema - 1935, Bingo – 1960, Christ Faith Tabernacle – 2011

Granada cinema
Granada already had a reputation for designing some of Britain's most glamorous cinemas, but this one was said to be the most romantic theatre ever built. It was 1937 - the golden age of cinema - and this 3000 seat venue was Granada's offering to Woolwich. The Gothic-like interiors were designed by Russian-born theatre designer Theodore Komisarjevsky and still include a hall of mirrors.

Woolwich Walk

Vivian Stanshall lived down our street "Intro and Outro", 1990 - 1995.
Society for the Promotion of Historic Buildings

Graham Wallas, 1858 - 1932, sociologist and writer, lived here, 1923 - 1932.
London County Council

In memory of Michael Burton, 1939 - 2006, for his efforts to preserve the unique quality of Langton Way and the immediate area.
The Langton Way Association