Dame Vera Lynn
Singer. Born Vera Margaret Welch in Thackeray Road, E6. She adopted her maternal grandmother's maiden name as her professional surname. She started performing publicly at the age of seven, and sang...
Singer. Born Vera Margaret Welch in Thackeray Road, E6. She adopted her maternal grandmother's maiden name as her professional surname. She started performing publicly at the age of seven, and sang...
Born in 1496 or 1497 in York. Upper Warden of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths many times, Sheriff of London 1540-1 and Lord Mayor of London 1545-6. Joined the Royal Mint in1526 in a senior ro...
Lord William Henry Berkeley Portman, 2nd Viscount Portman, of the Portman family. Seems he did not use 'William' but went by 'Henry'. He had 6 sons but they must have been less successful at produ...
Warden of Goldsmiths College 1927-50. He played a major part in the reconstruction of the college after it was bombed in WW2.
Barrister at law. Involved in the reviving of the Society of Cymmrodorion in 1873. Advertised in The Welshman in 1875. Appointed first stipendiary magistrate at the West Ham court house in 1881.
Mayor of West Ham, 1900 - 01. From Sludge G: "Born Worle, nr Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 1838, died West Ham May 16, 1917. In 1881, Plasterer employing 10 men, living at 1 Victoria Villas, Essex St...
Charlton superfan. Charlton Athletic was first supported by his father and brother. Seb went to The Valley for the first time in 1992 and went on to attend every single game, home and away from Feb...
South London artist who has created work similar to the Charlton Athletic mural all over south-east London and Kent, e.g. Brockley, Hither Green, Lee, Forest Hill and Plumstead. He has completed ov...
This Edward Monson would have been 40 when St Albans was built. His father (Edward Monson) was a civil engineer. and junior's architect son, Edward Charles Philip Monson would have been 15. So we a...
Vicar-designate of St Albans Chiswick in 1887. From The Life and Death of Andy Ducat by Jonathan Northall (pdf): "... Crompton House School which would later become Southend Grammar School. Crom...