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Garrick Club

Categories: Community / Clubs

Private members’ Club at 15 Garrick Street, named after David Garrick. Notoriously it maintains its rule of not admitting women as members. Members include many high profile or powerful men in fields such as: politics, law, the arts, entertainment, etc.

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Garrick Club

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Laurence Olivier statue

Unveiled by Sir Richard Attenborough, Larry‘s son, Tarquin and widow, Joan Pl...

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Jim McFarland

Jim McFarland

Jim's daughter Rachelle McFarland has kindly provided this information about her father: "He was born in Coventry and came to London in his youth, to eventually meet my mother. "He has worked for...

Person, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Noel Falconer Filmer

Noel Falconer Filmer

Noel Falconer Filmer is 2nd from the right of the nine boys standing in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 13 December 1897, the seventh of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials
Mrs Gay Christiansen

Mrs Gay Christiansen

Founder of the Kensington Society, lived at 18 Kensington Square. When she failed to stop the replacement of some houses in Young Street with an aggressively modern multi-storey car park she formed...

Person, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Rainbow Corner

Rainbow Corner

Club for the American forces in the UK during WW2. Also known as the American Red Cross Club. This is where those "oversexed, overpaid and over here" GIs hung out. From British History online: The...

Building, Armed Forces, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Oranjehaven

Oranjehaven

A club for Dutchmen who had escaped their occupied country to join the Allied Forces.  The Dutch Wikipedia has some information.  The day of opening may be 2 rather than 6 (sources vary).  The lite...

Building, Community / Clubs, Netherlands

1 memorial

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C. E. Purkis
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake

Sea captain, explorer and pirate. Born in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon. He spent his formative years in the house of his cousin Sir John Hawkins and by 1565 was voyaging to Guinea and the Spani...

Person, Exploring, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Panama

6 memorials
C. B. Ayling

C. B. Ayling

Man of East or West Molesey who died in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Men from Whitbread & Co lost in WW1 & WW2

Men from Whitbread & Co lost in WW1 & WW2

Our picture shows the Chiswell Street brewery in the years just before WW1.

Group, Food & Drink

1 memorial
L/Bdr. W. E. Roberts
War dead, WW2
1 memorial