Erection date: 27/7/2013
Florence Keen, 1868 - 1942, founder of North Islington School for Mothers, later Manor Gardens Centre.
London Borough of Islington
Manor Gardens Centre Centenary 2013
N7, Manor Gardens, Manor Gardens Centre
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Florence Keen - Islington plaque
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 subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Florence Keen - Islington plaque
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Florence Keen - Islington plaque
We don't need to comment on the placement of the railings and the sensitivity...
In 1882 a private art school was founded by the Victorian animal painter, Thomas Sidney Cooper, in this building which was also his home....
W. P. Frith, 1819 - 1909, painter, lived and died here. Greater London Council
Unusually this memorial lists all the men who went to war, not just those who died. The names of the ten who did die are marked with a li...
Robert Browning lived in this house 1887 - 1889, from here his body was taken for interment in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey.
Clink Wharf stands as a memorial to Gary King, 1957 - 2000, whose vision and commitment to building this wharf led to the redevelopment o...
In 2009 we were contacted by Alexander Ferguson Moran (Fergus), saying his granddaughter’s husband’s great grandfather was Robert Ryder, VC. Fergus could not easily get to London to investigate th...
The sculptor has a page about this statue and its creation with some interesting photos.
James was Labour Prime Minister 1976-9, Audrey his wife, also in politics but particularly interested in child welfare. Audrey died on 15 March 2005, followed just 11 days later on the 26th by Jam...
Born Stenbrohult, Småland in southern Sweden. Inventor of a system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms. One of the great collectors of the 18th century. At his death Joseph Banks tried b...
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