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...
Plaque unveiled by the husband and wife actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales.
We take this opportunity to thank the posties of London: not only do they do a great job delivering our letters but, on occasion, unwitti...
The plaque is on the right of the semi-circular covers of the ticket offices.
After we'd posted this our colleague Andrew Behan added some biographical details for the two men.
The designer of the building clearly had the 'citadel' concept in mind. Strangely, some of these foundation plaques have had their inscri...
Walter de la Mare, 1873 - 1956, poet, lived here, 1940 - 1956. English Heritage
2130 men from St Michael Cornhill served in WW1, of which at least 170 died in the war.
Former dance venue. It opened as a roller-skating rink, then became an ice rink, before being turned into a popular ballroom and concert hall. During WW2 it was used for making tanks and also as a ...
A civil engineering company of Grantham and London, active 1928. Their London address was Dickens House, Lant Street. Listed in the London Gazette (17 July 1942) as having been struck off the regis...
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