Girl guide troop.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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12th Carshalton Guide Company
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Benjamin Waugh
Social reformer and minister. Born in Settle, Yorkshire. Whilst working in the slums of Greenwich, he became appalled at the deprivations and cruelties suffered by children. He wrote 'The Gaol Crad...
4 memorials
Sunday Schools (centenary)
Workhouses.org informs that schools for children on Sundays probably happened earlier but the movement started in 1780 when Robert Raikes opened a school in Gloucester.
1 memorial
Mary Tourtel
Author and artist. Born Mary Caldwell. She studied art and became a children's book illustrator. Her husband Herbert Tourtel, was news editor of the Daily Express. In 1920 the newspaper was looking...
1 memorial
Richard Norman Everitt
The picture source website tells the story leading up to Richard becoming an innocent victim of gang warfare.
1 memorial
Dr Barnardo
Missionary and social worker with the British poor, especially children. Born Thomas John Barnardo in Dublin with a Prussian father. "Brought to Christ" in 1862. Arrived at 30 Coburn Street in 1866...
Person, Children, Jack the Ripper suspects, Social Welfare, Ireland
5 memorials