Erection date: 30/6/2012
Edith Garrud, 1872 - 1971, the suffragette that knew jiu-jitsu lived here.
Islington People's Plaque
London Borough of Islington
N1, Thornhill Square, 60
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edith Garrud
Suffragette and martial arts instructor. Born Edith Margaret Williams in Bath...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edith Garrud
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
There is no indication as to who erected the plaque, but the fulsome description of the Lanesborough Hotel, suggests that they might have...
Dr John Alcindor, 1873 - 1924, physician, Pan-Africanist and WW1 local hero, had his surgery here, 1913 - 1924. Nubian Jak Community Trus...
Gerald Durrell, 1925 - 1995, zoologist and writer, lived here as a child. English Heritage
See the page for the WW1 section of this plaque for more information about it. We are reasonably confident that the WW2 names are of men ...
English Heritage Sydney Monckton Copeman, 1862-1947, immunologist and developer of smallpox vaccine, lived here.
Conductor and composer. The first British-born career conductor. Born in London. He founded the promenade concerts in 1895 at the Queen's Hall. When this was destroyed in the Blitz the concerts ...
Borough of Lewisham Thankfull Sturdee, 1852 - 1934, local historian and photographer, lived here, 1900-1903.
In the photo you can see 3 stone plaques on this wall. The low, middle one is weather-worn into illegibility. Lowe's tree is at the centr...
The steps are rather grand for a public park and look to us as if left over from a now-demolished substantial building (factory, head off...
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