Erection date: 1928
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The North Islington Infant Welfare Centre was founded in 1913 by Mrs W. B. Keen who laid this stone in 1928.
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This garden was laid out in grateful memory of the founder who died on 30th April 1942.
We don't need to comment on the placement of the railings and the sensitivity of those responsible, do we?
N7, Manor Gardens, Manor Gardens Centre
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Florence Keen - 2 stone plaques
Founded by Florence Keen. 1983 renamed 'Manor Gardens Centre'.
Founder of the North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers i...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Florence Keen - 2 stone plaques
Florence Keen, 1868 - 1942, founder of North Islington School for Mothers, la...
There is an identical plaque on the side wall of the care home.
Historian, William Harnett Blanch, 1836 - 1900, lived here. Peckham Society
The building has been the home of Quo Vadis, an old and venerable Italian restaurant for many years.
The drawing is surely by Mel Calman but we can find nothing to connect him with this development.
St Mary Magdalene was built in 1814 as a chapel of ease to Islington Parish Church, the parish having grown from the mid C18th onwards, a...
In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...
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