Erection date: 19/4/2013
Historian, William Harnett Blanch, 1836 - 1900, lived here.
Peckham Society
SE15, Denman Street, 55
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Harnett Blanch
Historian. Born into a family of gun and rifle manufacturers, he was a prolif...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Harnett Blanch
A society that exists to encourage interest in, and to care for the environme...
The plaque is at the bottom of the escalators and stairs.
Marjorie 'Marge' Hewson (1943 - 2013) nursery nurse, worked for over 40 years at nearby Christ Church School and escorted children to sch...
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{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:} Lieutenant Charles Pope, Australian Imperial Force (Western Australia), 15th April 1917.
Thomas Cambell Beswick was born on 18 August 1920, the youngest of the three children of Thomas Beswick (1873-1961) and Mary Beswick née Cambell (1877-1932). His elder siblings were: Mary Beswick (...
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