This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
19th century cholera outbreaks
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Cholera - Hampstead - 1849
This building was erected by voluntary contributions for a dispensary and sou...
Cholera - Lambeth - 1848-9
We are tempted to write a letter to the Times ourselves, bemoaning the excess...
Dr John Snow - site of pump
The red granite kerbstone marks the site of the historic Broad Street pump as...
Other Subjects
Claire Rayner
Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London. Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada
W. A. Rushmere
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1909-1951. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Dr. Ernest Jones
Born south Wales. Pioneer psychoanalyst, follower of Sigmund Freud.
Physiological Society
Founded as a dining society by a group of 19 sociologists led by John Burton Sanderson and Michael Foster. Most of its members are involved in research into how the body works in health and disease...
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Keith Bowler
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010, at least, he lived in Wilkes Street Spitalfields and created these unusual pavement plaques. We understand they were c...
Ballet Rambert
Britain's oldest dance company. Founded by Dame Marie Rambert initially as Rambert Dancers, and then, at the Mercury Theatre, in 1931, as the Ballet Club and then, until the 1980s, as Ballet Ramber...
David Stokoe
David John Stokoe was born on 7 July 1966 and his birth was registered in the Havering registration district. His mother's maiden name was Woolgar. He was a firefighter attached to Silvertown fire...
Sybil Phoenix OBE
Born Sybil Theodora Phoenix Marshall in British Guiana (now Guyana). Community worker, the first black woman to be awarded the MBE, in 1973. Was Mayor of Lewisham. See EachOneTeachOne for more info.
British Broadcasting Corporation
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the British Broadcasting Company on 18 October 1922 to do test radio transmissions from Marconi House in the Strand. On 14 Nove...
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