This covered the area we would now call Inner London. It was run by the London County Council.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
County of London
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London Troops memorial plaque - Fulham
We recognised this as a flat version of the monument at the Royal Exchange an...
Other Subjects
Dr. James Cope
Medical adviser to City Companies, with an interest in history, particularly John Wilkes. Cope promoted the erection of the statue.
Edward John Reed, MA
Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public.
Sir Eric Salmon
Eric Cecil Heygate Salmon. He was educated at Malvern College and the Malvern Society Archives carry an obituary from which we learn... Awarded the MC in WW1. Then worked in the Ministry of Health...
Tessa Jowell
MP, Minister in the Blair / Brown governments 1997-2010. Born Marylebone. Her Wikipedia page gives much information about her life and together with her obituary confirms that she died, aged 70 ye...
J. B. Bennie
Councillor in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man : James Bishop Bennie was born on 11 July 1898 at Manse Road, Corstorphine, Midlothian, Scotlan...
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Royal Society of Arts
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee House. They carried on meeting in coffee houses and taverns but as the society grew they needed more space. Shipley rented ...
Holloway Brothers
A major construction firm with its own Wikipedia page. Henry Thomas Holloway and Henry Holloway based in Battersea. Later other brothers joined. Our picture shows a house they built in 6 days insid...
Anna Freud
NW3, Maresfield Gardens, 20
Anna Freud, 1895 - 1982, pioneer of child psychoanalysis, lived here 1938 - 1982.
Dr. John William Polidori
This entry has kindly been written for us by Franklin Bishop, expert on Polidori, and editor of "John William Polidori ‘The Vampyre’ and other writings", 2005. Polidori wrote The Vampyre, a novell...
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