Campaigner and community activist. Daughter of Sir Alan Herbert, she lived in Islington for almost 50 years. In the 1960s her house overlooked the City Road Basin and she led the campaign to save it from being filled in and built on or used as a car park. Founded the Islington Boat Club in 1970 and the annual Angel Canal Festival (initially Angel Day) in 1975 as a fund-raising event for the narrow boat 'Angel' used to give inner city children boat rides and trips into the countryside.
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Crystal Hale
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Crystal Hale
London Borough of Islington In memory of Crystal Hale, 1915 - 1999, saviour o...
Islington Boat Club
In gratitude to Crystal Hale, tireless campaigner & founder of The Isling...
Other Subjects
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
Frank George Southgate
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 3 months. Buried in grave 5 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
Jeanne Southwell
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
1 memorial
Edward Smith
Edward Smith is the 3rd on the right of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1901 in the Lambeth registration district. As a...
2 memorials
Anne Frank
Born Frankfurt, Germany. Died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
Person, Children, Seriously Famous, Tragedy, Germany, Netherlands
4 memorials