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Kidderpore Hall

From Knight Frank: "By 1843 ... Built that year, Kidderpore Hall was the home of the powerful merchant John Teil, an East India trader with vast tanneries in the Kidderpore district of Calcutta. Th...

Building, Education, Property

Bay House

Chronology of Westfield College gives "1922 The Bay was completed, (on a site formerly occupied by the Conservatory, that had been demolished in 1914). It was used to house a domestic block contain...

Building, Education, Property

Sir James Carmichael

Owned the building firm James Carmichael Ltd in Trinity Road Wandsworth Common. Director-General of Housing in England and Wales. He was a generous benefactor and in his lifetime gifted £40k to th...

Person, Benefactor, Property

J. Garrett & Son

Builders based in Balham. Active 1898 - 1952, at least.

Group, Property

Young & Hall

Architects. Keith Downes Young (12 September 1848 - 1 December 1929) was an English architect best known for designing hospitals and school sanatoria. born in King's Road, Richmond.  By 1886 he ha...

Group, Architecture

William Shepherd

A "philanthropically minded builder" who had died by 1925.  We cannot source that quote nor discover anything else about Shepherd. Source: Lost Hospitals of London.

Person, Benefactor, Property

Reverend Canon John Erskine Clarke

Clergyman. He issued the first parish magazine and established several other religious publications. Responsible for founding churches, schools and hospitals in Battersea. Born in India to an offi...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Religion, India, Scotland

Bolingbroke Hospital

Instigated by Canon John Erskine Clarke, Bolingbroke House (see below for more information) was acquired and opened in 1880 as Bolingbroke Self-Supporting Hospital and House in Sickness. The buildi...

Group, Medicine

Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife

Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife was the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra; she was a younger sister of King George V. On her marriage in 1889 she bec...

Person, Royalty

Men of Battersea killed in WW1 and WW2

Group