Erection date: 2/10/2015
Mary Tealby, 1801-1865, founded the Home for Lost & Starving Dogs (now Battersea Dogs & Cats Home) that stood on this site, 1860 - 1871.
London Borough of Islington
Islington People's Plaque
N7, Sheringham Road, Freightliners Farm
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mary Tealby
Founded by Mary Tealby in 1860 as the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Do...
Founded what is now the Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. Born Huntingdon as M...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mary Tealby
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
City of Westminster Mary Seacole, 1805 - 1881, Jamaican nurse, heroine of the Crimean War, lived in a house on this site. The Portman Estate
The two dates indicate the beginning and end of construction, often marked with two different stones, but here they've just added some te...
From Newham Stories (2018: that link not working but Newham Story has the text) we learn that there used to be another plaque commemorati...
This memorial is, oddly, erected very close to, and land-side of, the Wapping cupola which disguises a ventilation shaft for the Rotherhi...
Wilfred Ernest Lytton Day, FRPS, FRSA, 1873 - 1936, cinema historian, founder of the Will Day Cinematography Collection & of the Anim...
The London Salvage Corps was set up after the Tooley Street Fire of 1861. Their job was to rescue valuables from fire, protect goods from damage by water, etc. to minimise the claims submitted to ...
Mine-owner in Dulais Valley, Wales, near Neath. Named his mine after his seven sisters. High Sheriff of Breconshire 1913. Father of David, who hyphenated his surname thus making it different from h...
Composer. Born Lowestoft on St Cecilia's Day (patron saint of music). Royal College of Music, Founder of English Opera Group 1946 and the Aldeburgh Festival. Composer of opera Peter Grimes and othe...
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