Introduction
This is a project about commemoration.
In previous eras, notable personages were honoured with grand portraits or statues. Some still are today. But it is far more common in the modern, economical climate to make do with signs and plaques. Slabs of minimal text that somehow signify a whole life. Ambition and success are contained in simple words.
London is replete with such monumental text. This site will contain pictures and writing - part history, part autobiography - that will set these memorials in context, both in terms of the lives they venerate, and the everyday lives they touch as objects on the local landscape.
