English Buildings has a good short intro to Quakers in England and an assessment of an important Quaker building, albeit, not in London. Quakers were active in the WW2 Kindertransport.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Society of Friends in London
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Friends Meeting Place - Peckham
Friends meeting house. This building was the Peckham meeting house of the Soc...
Kindertransport - Kent
{Carved into the right side of the plinth:} Pro dítě {Czech for “for the chil...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Society of Friends in London
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Quakers - Memorial Buildings
To the left of this huge plaque there is a small, simple and extremely well-m...
Other Subjects
St George's Tufnell Park
We are as certain as can be, that this church in Tufnell Park Road is the St George's whose Band of Mercy was the donor of the drinking fountain at Limehouse Station. Designed by George Truefitt f...
1 memorial
William Gilpin
Artist, author, cleric and schoolmaster. He was a sketcher and collector of prints, and worked as a curate, before becoming a master, and then headmaster at Cheam School. In 1768 he published 'Ess...
1 memorial
Paul's Cross
Sermons had been preached at Paul's Cross since at least the 12th century. In 1449 Bishop Kemp had it rebuilt and it remained in that form until in 1643 the puritanical Long Parliament ordered its...
2 memorials
James Edmeston
Architect and prolific writer of church hymns (nearly 2000!). Born Wapping. Died Homerton where he was a church warden at St. Barnabas.
1 memorial
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Bishop and opponent of apartheid and campaigner on many other causes: AIDS, homophobia, etc. Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. His Wikipedia page and obituary confirm that he died, aged 90 ...
Person, Peace, Race Issues, Religion, Seriously Famous, Social Welfare, South Africa
1 memorial