In gratitude to Crystal Hale, tireless campaigner & founder of The Islington Boat Club. The club has provided safe boating for thousands of youngsters on City Road Basin and now celebrates its 25th anniversary.
1970 - 1995
N1, Graham Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Islington Boat Club
Campaigner and community activist. Daughter of Sir Alan Herbert, she lived in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Islington Boat Club
The club has provided safe boating for thousands of youngsters on City Road B...
Our photograph of the house is from English Heritage.
English Heritage Frances Mary Buss, 1827 - 1894, pioneer of education for women was headmistress here, 1879 - 1894.
Soper spoke here every Wednesday afternoon from 1927 until 1998, three weeks before his death.
Boys is given as the Incumbent and Barclay as the Treasurer. This is an attractive plaque, designed into the building. Pity about the pig...
Lillie Langtry, 1852-1929, actress, lived here. Greater London Council
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Indian politician, instrumental in India's independence. Born as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at Porbunder in Gujarat. Assassinated in Delhi on the way to prayers. There is another statue of Gandhi i...
Person, Nationalism, Peace, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, India
Opened in 1893, destroyed by the Luftwaffe on 10 May 1941. 2024: Described on page 240 of J. B. Priestley's 1930 London-set novel Angel Pavement: "... with its bluey-green walls and gilded organ-p...
