Erection date: 17/8/2018
George Jacob Holyoake, 1817 - 1906, radical journalist, secularist and promoter of the Co-operative Movement, lived here 1850 to 1861.
National Secular Society
Marchmont Association
WC1, Woburn Walk
Richardson's novel The Trap describes her time at no.6.
Holyoake lived at no.4, formerly 1 Woburn Buildings, 1850 - 61.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
George Holyoake
Radical journalist, secularist and promoter of the Co-operative Movement. Bor...
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George Holyoake
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
Campaign promoting secularism and the separation of church and state. Founded...
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George Holyoake
Holly Road Garden of rest This garden was first laid out for public use in 1953. From 1782 it had served as a burial ground for the Pari...
Difficult to photograph the whole building. We believe it extends across 7 window bays, our picture showing only the 5 left-most.
The Heritage Foundation website mentions a plaque to him unveiled in 2000 by his wife Stephanie, Sir Norman Wisdom, Kenneth Wolstenholme,...
Sir Osbert Lancaster, 1908 - 1986, cartoonist and writer, was born here. English Heritage
Promoter Tony Defries hired King's Cross Cinema, now Scala, for July 14-15, 1972, to put on the successive London debuts of Lou Reed and ...
The Royal Docks is the area, including the three docks – the Royal Victoria (1855), the Royal Albert (1880) and the King George V (1921), collectively forming the largest enclosed docks in the worl...
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