Corporation of London
The Great Synagogue, Dukes Place, constituent of the United Synagogue stood on the site adjoining from 1690 and served the community continuously until it was destroyed in September 1941 in World War II.
EC3, Dukes Place
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Great Synagogue, Dukes Place
This was not actually the first synagogue built after the Jews returned to En...
In 1290 Edward I expelled Jews from England and for centuries, apart from tho...
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Great Synagogue, Dukes Place
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Yeo-Thomas lived here with his common-law wife, Barbara, from 1941 until about 1945, after which he lived in France.
Dickens re-edited Grimaldi’s memoirs 1837-8. He worked from Thomas Wilks' edited version of Grimaldi’s original, which is now lost so the...
The plaque was unveiled by actor and president of the Heritage Foundation, Vicki Michelle.
The BBC reported 20 July 2005 that Shahara A. Islam worked as a cashier at the Co-operative Bank at Angel, Islington and that police beli...
Feminist, Liberal politician, mathematician, engineer, artist and writer. NUWSS, unsuccessfully stood for Parliament. Born as Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe. 1911 she married civil servant Oliver ...
Actor/manager, born in Devonport. In his early working life he worked on the York theatre circuit and acted in numerous tragic roles. In 1837 played Shylock at the Haymarket. He then had a short r...
Suffragist and birth control campaigner. Born Edith How in London. 1899 married George Herbert Martyn. Member of the Women's Social and Political Union. She was arrested in 1906 for attempting to ...
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