Mayor of Bermondsey 1929-1930 and then for a period of 3 terms during WW2: 1941-44.
Our photo shows a group of officials from the United States during their tour of the Civil Defence Services at Bermondsey, inspecting members of a decontamination squad. Starr is the one with the jewellery. The photo is dated 2 August 1941.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Albert Charles Starr
This garden is named after Mrs Ada Salter, a member of the Parks Committee of...
The inscription's date of birth for Ada contradicts that of reputable sources...
One of the managers of the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital.
Railway engineer, very influential in Argentina where he was Chairman of many railway companies. Excelled at polo as a young man. First Chairman of the Tower Hill Improvement Trust. Our picture co...
Warden of the Carpenters Company in 1956. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Commander Alan Westbury Preston was born on 11 July 1898 in Wedderburn House, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead, the son of...
A small, heavily populated state on the south-east coast of Australia. It was officially separated from New South Wales, given a constitution and named Victoria in 1850. The enabling legislation ...
Born 7 Chester Street, Chelsea. Poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He invented the poetic form called ‘roundel’. Was a good friend of Dante Rossetti, who called him his ’little Northumbrian ...
Historian. novelist and biographer. Born at Dartington Rectory, Devon. He intended to become a clergyman, but his doubts expressed in his novel 'The Nemesis of Faith' changed his mind and he turned...
In July 2018 the 5 VC plaques are laid into the esplanade in front of the war memorial, reading left to right: Parslow, Booth, Train, Say...
This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...
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