Peter Stone

The Hudson's Bay Company was founded in London in 1668, primarily to import furs from North America. In the 1920s they had this large building on Bishopsgate constructed as their HQ, where they remained until 1940. It is surmounted by a weather vane in the shape of a beaver.

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Buckingham Palace began as a relatively modest mansion in the early 17thC. It evolved and grew in the following two centuries, with Queen Victoria the first monarch to take up residence. Read the history of the palace here thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/buckingham-pal…

For almost 10 years from 2001, Brian Haw staged a highly visible daily one-person protest in Parliament Square against UK and US policies and the wars in Iran and Afghanistan. He died in 2011 and this small statue was erected at Lambeth Road, facing the Imperial War Museum.

In the early 19th century London's water companies formed an illegal cartel. They reduced their costs and increased prices, to the benefit of their shareholders and detriment of consumers. Read about it here thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/londons-water-…