Memorial: Peace tree
Erected 2/7/1986, 39 years ago
WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens
To commemorate International Year of Peace, 1986, this field maple tree was planted by The League of Jewish Women, Wednesday 2nd July 1986.
Subject: Sir Robert Peel, PM
Died 2/7/1850, 175 years ago
MP and Prime Minister in the 1830s and 40s. Reorganised the London police force and hence gave rise to the expressions "Peelers" and "Bobbies" for the police. He based the new structure on that of ...
Memorial: Rodney Smith
Erected 2/7/1949, 76 years ago
IG8, Woodford New Road, Mill Plain, Epping Forest
{On a plaque below a picture of a gipsy caravan:} Gipsy Rodney Smith, who preached the gospel of christ to thousands on five continents f...
Subject: Salvation Army
Started 2/7/1865, 160 years ago
A Protestant church internationally renowned for its charitable works. Founded as the "East London Christian Mission" or "Christian Revival Society" by William and Catherine Booth. Initially its me...
Subject: Lord Sandberg CBE
Died 2/7/2017, 8 years ago
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Michael Graham Ruddock Sandberg was born on 31 May 1927, the youngest of the three children of Gerald Arthur Clifford Sandberg (1882-1954) and Ethel Marian Cli...
Subject: Sivas massacre
Started 2/7/1993, 32 years ago
2 July 1993 at the Hotel Madimak in Sivas, Turkey, people had gathered for the Pir Sultan Abdal {poet executed c. 1560} festival. A mob set fire to the hotel killing 35 people, mostly Alevi (a loca...
