John Richard Archer 1863 - 1932, Mayor of Battersea, 1913 - 1914 (first black London mayor) had a photography shop and lived here, 1918 - 1932.
Nubian Jack Community Trust
Wandsworth Council EMAS & Heritage Lottery Fund
SW11, Battersea Park Road, 214
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Archer - Battersea Park Road
Political activist. Born at 3 Blake Street, Liverpool. He travelled the world...
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John Archer - Battersea Park Road
Wandsworth Ethnic Minority Achievement Service. it works in partnership with ...
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (rebranded 2019), formerly the Heritage Lo...
Dr. John Snow, 1813 - 1858, pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist lived in a house on this site.
The history of this building, "the former Hotel Cecil" is covered by Victor Keegan.
In 1951 the pub was called Grafton's and run by Jimmy Grafton who helped create the Goons and get them on the radio.
LCC Lord Palmerston (1784 - 1865) Prime Minister, born here.
A local resident said that this plaque (and the one next door, to William McMillan) is spurious and was erected by developers purely to b...
The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on Monday 20 June 1887. In George Gissing's 1894 novel 'In the Year of Jubilee' characters discuss whether to participate...
What Pub tells a sorry tale: "Built in 1840. ... pub closed on 7 Sept. 2016 ... Planning app dated 03 Aug 2018: Change of use of first an...
Author of over 50 delightful novels. Born at 16 Keppel Street. Worked for the GPO (General Post Office) 1834 - 59 and introduced the free-standing postbox ('pillar box') to the UK, an idea stolen f...
Doctor and politician. Born at 23 South Street, Greenwich. Following his Quaker principles, he gave up a potentially brilliant medical career in order to tend the sick and needy in Bermondsey, his ...
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