From their website:
YWCA was founded in 1855 by Miss Emma Robarts and The Hon Mrs Arthur Kinnaird. Miss Robarts started organising groups for young women who were coming to London for the first time. Mrs Kinnaird opened a hostel in Upper Charlotte Street, London for Florence Nightingale's nurses, en route to and from the Crimea.
We were founded by Christian women but today our work is no longer faith-based. We work with people of all faiths and none.
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Grapes Tavern
First mentioned in 1842. It occupies the site of the former Christopher Inn. On its northern side it still retains the red brick fronts of several 18th century houses. It has since returned to its ...
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Deptford History Group
2012: we can find no information about this group, so possibly it is no longer active.
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Anglo-Argentine Society
Founded in London. Its main objectives are the cultural interchange between Great Britain and Argentina and building strong social and creative ties between both communities.
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The Establishment Club
Peter Cook said this was modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War". Lenny Bruce, Barry Humphries, ...
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Black Music Congress, etc.
A number of groups related to black music history seem to have come and gone; it's difficult to disentangle them. These links were working in 2021: Black History Month, IRDUK (mentioned on the post...
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Ada Salter - SE16 statue
SE16, Bermondsey Wall East, Cherry Gardens
The multi-part sculpture is called 'Dr Salter's Daydream' and shows the whole Salter family. The scene is poignant in that Joyce died at ...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Flight Lieutenant Alan Jerrard, VC
Aviator. Born at 13 Vicar's Hill, Lewisham. In WW1 he was a lieutenant in No. 66 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. On 30 March 1918 near Mansuè, Italy, he and two other officers, shot down one of...
War served, WW1
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War dead non-military, WW2
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War dead, WW1
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William Thackeray - SW7
SW7, Onslow Square, 36
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), novelist, lived here, 1854-1862. L.C.C.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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