Plaque

Richard Carr-Gomm

Inscription

Richard Carr-Gomm 1922 -  , social reformer, founder of the Abbeyfield and Carr-Gomm Societies, lived and worked here.
London Borough of Southwark
Voted by the people

The plaque was erected while he was still alive.

Site: Richard Carr-Gomm (1 memorial)

SE16, Gomm Road, 36

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Richard Carr-Gomm

Subjects commemorated i

Abbeyfield Society

A charity which provides sheltered housing  and care homes for elderly people...

Read More

Carr-Gomm Society

Charity founded by Richard Carr-Gomm, providing support to deprived people.

Read More

Richard Carr-Gomm

Army officer and charity founder. Richard Culling Carr-Gomm was born on 2 Fe...

Read More

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Richard Carr-Gomm

Created by i

Southwark Council

The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

William Blake - W1

William Blake - W1

W1, Marshall Street, 8 William Blake House

William Blake was born on 23rd November 1757 in a house which stood on this site.

1 subject commemorated
Lankester plaque

Lankester plaque

E1, Commercial Road

The plaque is on the wall at pedestrian eye height, immediately below the clock. Numbers 384-392 did not become part of the hospital unt...

2 subjects commemorated
Sir Alexander Fleming - Harefield

Sir Alexander Fleming - Harefield

UB9, Hill End Road, Harefield Hospital

Hillingdon, London Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, biologist, pharmacologist and Nobel prize winner for the discovery of penicillin, appoin...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Amy Johnson

Amy Johnson

NW2, Hendon Way, Vernon Court

This is a really horrible road, noisy with polluted air in an area we don't know well. We took our photos and looked at the map on our ph...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Sir Roger Bannister

Sir Roger Bannister

W9, Randolph Avenue, Paddington Recreation Ground

The plaque has added an 'e' to the end of Gunder Hägg's surname

6 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

Previously viewed

Carter and Company / Poole Pottery

Carter and Company / Poole Pottery

Ceramic tile manufacturers. Founded by Jesse Carter, a builders’ merchant and ironmonger from Surrey. It was later renamed as the Poole Pottery. The Carter company produced much of the ceramic til...

Group, Commerce

3 memorials
David Leys

David Leys

Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Marcus Grantham

Marcus Grantham

Member of Middle Temple. Father of Adrianne Uziell-Hamilton. Andrew Behan has established, from the 1939 England and Wales register compiled on the outbreak of WW2, that there was a Marcus Grantha...

Person, Law

1 memorial
George Baxter - SE26

George Baxter - SE26

SE26, Charlecote Grove, Baxter Field

There is a house, still extant, called Round Hill Cottage but Harrild lived at the big house, Round Hill House, no longer standing.

5 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Samuel Baylis and the Radical Club

Samuel Baylis and the Radical Club

EC2, Whitecross Street

Samuel Baylis lived on Whitecross Street and was a founder of the Radical Club, July 1833. Mad in England English Hedonists

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator