Group    From 1959 

Putney Society

Categories: Community / Clubs

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Putney Society

Creations i

Edward Gibbon - SW15

Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on G...

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Festing Road residents killed in WW1

The first quotation is adapted from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon The s...

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Gavin Ewart

Gavin Ewart, 1916 - 1995, noted poet, FRSL, lived at Kenilworth Court. The P...

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Hugh Jenkins

Lord Hugh Jenkins, 1908 - 2004, Putney MP, 1964- 1979, Minister for the Arts,...

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J. R. Ackerley

J. R. Ackerley, 1896 - 1967, writer and literary editor, lived here, 1941 - 1...

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Other Subjects

William Morris Hall

William Morris Hall

Ben and Charles Buck proposed a home for the socialist, radical and trades union people of Walthamstow in 1903. Funded by workers who bought bricks and organised sponsored bike rides and social eve...

Building, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

Army officer and founder of the boy scouts and girl guides. Born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell at 6 Stanhope Street, Paddington. His mother changed the family name to Baden-Powell after her hus...

Person, Armed Forces, Children, Community / Clubs, Seriously Famous, Afghanistan, India, Kenya, South Africa

4 memorials
Pete Pope

Pete Pope

The Picture source and Transpontine explain that Pope was a local activist and was greatly valued by those who knew him. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Death registration records provide th...

Person, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Time and Talents

Time and Talents

Community group. It originated with a group of committed Christian women who deplored the waste and futility of the protected lives of the majority of young girls who were only expected to be decor...

Group, Community / Clubs, Gender Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial

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Eric W. Buckler
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Tommy Martin
1 memorial
John Copping

John Copping

Serjeant John Copping was born in 1880 in Hacheston, Suffolk and his birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1880 in the Plomesgate, Suffolk, registration district. He was the only son and the t...

Person, Armed Forces, France

1 memorial
G. N. Read

G. N. Read

Surbiton man killed serving in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial