This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Queen Mary College
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Barber Beaumont - information plaque
This information plaque is giving the provenance of the immense slab of infor...
People's Palace
The plaque names only 6 relief panels but there are 7, music being represente...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Queen Mary College
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Clement Attlee statue
It's rather disconcerting that the plaque refers to "Queen Mary College" as "...
King Leopold II of Belgium
Foundation stone of this library was laid by His Majesty Leopold II King of t...
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George Green
Shipbuilder and philanthropist. Founder of a shipyard in Blackwall, which was subsequently taken over by his three sons, Frederick, Henry and Richard. George endowed several schools in Poplar. He a...
Robert Bell
Elizabethan seafarer. With Peter Hill he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers. In the nearby church of St Mary the Virgin there is a brass plate co...
Laburnum Street School
A primary school, demolished to make way for the Bridge Academy. Our photo shows a 2014 reunion taking place in the school hall. We believe the building appears (in the distance) in a photo on Spit...
Morley College
This college has its origins in the temperance Royal Victoria Coffee and Music Hall. In 1882, using the back-stage and the dressing rooms of the theatre, Emma Cons introduced Tuesday “penny” lectur...
Henrietta Franklin
Education reformer and leader of Jewish League for Woman Suffrage. She championed the Parents' National Educational Union and the ideas of Charlotte Mason. Born as Henrietta Montagu in London into...
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Stanley Baldwin
Prime Minister. Born at Lower Park House, Bewdley, Worcestershire. A cousin of Rudyard Kipling. Married Lucy Ridsdale in 1892. He entered parliament in 1908, became president of the Board of Trade ...
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 ...
Tower Hamlets Council
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middlesex. This division was a liberty, i.e. it was an autonomous area under the jurisdiction of the Constable of the Tower of...
Bethlehem Hospital 1&2
A priory for the Order of the Star of Bethlehem, built in 1247 on Bishopsgate at Liverpool Street, started admitting mental patients in 1357. This was probably the world's first institution to spec...
Mrs J. Lynn
President of the British Women's Temperance Association, Holloway Branch.
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