6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, all returned home. Five of them continued their campaign and supported the Chartists.
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Tolpuddle Martyrs
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Tolpuddle Martyrs at Copenhagen Fields
Copenhagen Fields From this site on 21st April 1834 thousands marched in sup...
Tolpuddle Martyrs mural
A modern information board informs that the mural was painted by Dave Bangs i...
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Poplar Rates Rebellion
Tax protest led by George Lansbury supported by the councillors of Poplar Borough Council. On behalf of Poplar, an extremely poor borough, they held back taxes and were taken to court for non-paym...
1 memorial
L. C. Parkes
Louis Coltman Parkes. A medical doctor. Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea in 1909. Authored a good number of medical books - held by the Wellcome Collection. Obituary in the BMJ 31 October 19...
1 memorial
Admiral, Viscount Samuel Hood, GCB
Naval officer. Born Somerset. Governor of of Greenwich Hospital, 1796 until his death.
1 memorial
Edward Williams
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
1 memorial
George Henry William Lamb
Member of Brentford Council in 1909, the year his name was inscribed on the monument and the year he died. The Brentford High Street Project website gives much details about the life of this man t...
1 memorial
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London General Omnibus Company
Transport company. It was originally an Anglo-French enterprise, also known as the Compagnie Generale des Omnibus de Londres. It became the largest omnibus operator in London, buying out hundreds o...
5 memorials
Soho Fire Station WW2 bomb
The picture source provides: "On the evening of Oct. 7, 1940, Soho fire station in central London took a direct hit during the Blitz, killing Station Officer William Wilson and Auxiliary Firefighte...
1 memorial
Ewer Street burial ground
SE1, Ewer Street
Current maps show Ewer Street shaped like a T on its side - very unusual. An 1862 map shows an L-shaped Ewer Street (without the northern...
2 subjects commemorated
5 memorials
John Dryden
Poet and playwright. Born in Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The first Poet Laureate. Died in London. Initially buried in St Anne's Church, Soho but quickly reburied in Chaucer's grave in Westminster ...
6 memorials
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