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New Zealand Historic Places Trust
From offices on this site the New Zealand Company on 5 May 1839 despatched the survey ship Tory to begin the colonisation of New Zealand on the Wakefield Plan.
WC2, Adam Street, 1-5
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Colonisation of New Zealand
Formed to establish British settlements in New Zealand. 5 May 1839 despatche...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Colonisation of New Zealand
Site of the Jolly Sailor Inn, South Norwood's first public building, 1810. People for Portland Road
Currently, 2011, used by the National Opera as a studio. The current building is a hall, opened in 1883, with a total of 6 plaques all on...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
Francisco de Miranda 1750 - 1816 lived in this house between 1803 and 1810. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he was the forerunner of the i...
Leopold and Charlotte had married on 2 May and Charlotte was already known to be pregnant so they were probably seen as a golden couple a...
Built to control the water level in the former Surrey Docks.
