The Automobile Association, originally set up to help motorists avoid police speed traps, opened its first office in Fleet Street in 1905.
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Harmondsworth Vicarage Hall
Demolished after 1972 which is the date of this photo. Forebears says: "the Vicarage Hall, built in the vicarage grounds for parochial purposes in 1885, at a cost of £500, by the Rev. J. C. Taylor...
The Westcombe Society
'A fully independent amenity group which aims to forge links within the community to make the area a better place for all who live and work there'.
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Sir William Goscombe John
Born in Cardiff as William Goscombe John but he adopted Goscombe. He travelled across Europe and studied with Rodin. Worked in the "new sculpture" style. When he and his wife Marthe returned to the...
Norman H. Smith
Soldier in the Queen Victoria Rifles killed in Ypres. Andrew Behan has researched Smith: Lance Corporal Norman Hattersley Smith was born in June 1894 in Conisbrough, Yorkshire, the second child an...
Rodney Bickerstaffe
Rodney Kevan Bickerstaffe was born on 6 April 1945 in Hammersmith. He was the General Secretary of National Union of Public Employees from 1982 to 1993 and of UNISON from 1996 to 2001. He died fro...
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