Spent his life helping vulnerable children.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Jim Gaffney
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Jim Gaffney
Jim Gaffney, 1941 - 2002. Jim spent his life helping vulnerable children. H...
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Priscilla Wakefield
Born Priscilla Bell in Tottenham. Quaker philanthropist and author of feminist economics, scientific subjects, travel, children's non-fiction. Best known book was 'The Juvenile Travellers' which ha...
Person, Children, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare
1 memorial
Effie Bourne Taylour
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
1 memorial
Billy Bunter
Character in a series of stories set in Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys weekly story magazine 'The Magnet'.
1 memorial
Alfred Joseph Walter Sims
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 6. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
Evelina Hospital for Sick Children
The Evelina Children's Hospital was founded by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and named for his wife, who had died aged 27 with her child in labour in 1866. It was planned by Dr Arthur Farre in a pu...
2 memorials
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Rotherhithe Tunnel
Road tunnel crossing under the River Thames, connecting Rotherhithe to the Ratcliff district of Limehouse. Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, it was constructed using both a tunnelling 'shield' a...
7 memorials
Sir Leslie Stephen
SW7, Hyde Park Gate, 22
London County Council Sir Leslie Stephen, 1832-1904, scholar and writer lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, DCL, FRS
Naval officer and arctic explorer. Born Bath. The Canadian Encyclopedia says "He contributed much to the eventual discovery of the Northwest Passage and the North Pole." Lieut-Governor of Greenw...
1 memorial
People of Bethnal Green who died in WW1, WW2 and subsequent wars
The text actually reads "Men, women and children of the borough who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918 and World War II 1939-1945 and thereafter on active service". We find this form of w...
1 memorial
Tyburn tree - pavement plaque
W2, Edgeware Road
2 October 2014: The plaque was restored but we have kept our picture so you can see what it used to look like.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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