Alice Zimmern, 1855 - 1939, pioneering advocate for women's education and suffrage, lived here.
Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association
Heritage Lottery Fund
NW5, Lissenden Gardens, 41-50 Clevedon Mansions
These flats were completed in 1906 and Zimmern was one of the first residents to move in.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alice Zimmern
Pioneering advocate for women's education and suffrage. Born Nottingham. St...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Alice Zimmern
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (rebranded 2019), formerly the Heritage Lo...
When we first researched this area in 2008 there were three plaques erected b...
We thank Matt Brown of Londonist for the photo of the plaque, taken in about 2007. Recently both we and Matt have, separately, failed to ...
These plaques seem to relate to the maintenance and changing ownership of the grounds of "The Holly Lodge". The house (which was between ...
2017: The plaque is no longer here (our photograph was taken 2008), We have contacted Stephens House, who tell us that it was removed in ...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
On the pier between numbers 13 and 14: "Shaftesbury House, Hoxton Market Christian Mission".
First documented in 1674, at its largest the farmland was bounded by High Road, Ballards Lane, Long Lane, Squire's Lane. The Cobley family owned he farm from 1680 to 1902 when it was sold, the bui...
Poet and playwright. Born as Herman James Elroy Flecker in Lewisham. His first book of poems was published in 1907. He joined the consular service in 1908 and had postings in Constantinople and Bei...
Chemist and meteorologist. Born in London. He became a pharmacist, and set up his own practice in 1793. Made recordings of the weather in London from 1801 to 1841. Although he was not the first per...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Only son of Henry VIII (with Jane Seymour who died 12 days after the birth), born Hampton Court. Became king aged 9 and died of consumption 6 years later, at Greenwich Palace. While king he was sup...
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