Erection date: 6/5/1989
Pax Lodge. Dedicated to the memory of the World Chief Guide, Olave Baden-Powell.
6th May 1989
This plaque was unveiled in the centenary year of Olave's birth.
NW3, Lyndhurst Road, Olave Centre / Pax House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pax House
Born Olave Soames in Derbyshire. 1912 met Robert Baden-Powell on a trans-Atla...
Ugo Foscolo, 1778 - 1827, Italian poet and patriot, lived here, 1817 - 1818. English Heritage
In gratitude to Crystal Hale, tireless campaigner & founder of The Islington Boat Club. The club has provided safe boating for thous...
Marjorie 'Marge' Hewson (1943 - 2013) nursery nurse, worked for over 40 years at nearby Christ Church School and escorted children to sch...
We captured the plaque in 2011 but failed to take a photo of the building showing the plaque in situ. It was 2017 before we managed to re...
Londonist reports: "According to a local press report, 'While the car was going down Grove Hill at a high speed the front wheel collapsed...
Author and sculptor. Born Hilda Mary McDowell. In the 1930s she entertained both Mahatma Gandhi and Haile Selassie at her home in Wimbledon, and sculpted the bust of Selassie which now stands in Ca...
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role in running the Hospital rather than any heroic deed. Most ...
Worked for the St. Pancras Housing Society from 1929 to 1958.
Army officer and founder of the boy scouts and girl guides. Born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell at 6 Stanhope Street, Paddington. His mother changed the family name to Baden-Powell after her hus...
Person, Armed Forces, Children, Community / Clubs, Seriously Famous, Afghanistan, India, Kenya, South Africa
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