Roy was Chair of the Lee Valley Park 1981-6. We can't find any information on him so we looked into the Park instead.
The Park is huge, 10,000 acres, more than four times the size of Richmond Park, 26 miles long, and extends from the River Thames out to Ware. It was created in 1967 and is (2021) managed by the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority.
On the map, Myddelton House, the headquarters of the Authority, is close to number 18.
C. Gilpin MP. Associated with St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate in 1800. We can find a Charles Gilpin MP, but he was a Quaker born in 1815 so not our man.
JP. Mayor of the Borough of Bethnal Green three times: 1901-2; 1906-7; 1909-11. Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall and opened it in 1910. We thank Andrew Be...
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. Our image comes from Wikipedia's photo captioned 'First West Ham Borough Council, 1886-7'. This 'Councillor R. Fielder' is p...
John Samuel Purcell was born on 31 May 1839 in Ireland, a son of Dr John Francis Powell who was a Physician in Ordinary to successive Lords-Lieutenant of Ireland and later an Irish Poor Law Commiss...
London headquarters of the African National Congress, 1978 - 1994 were at 28 Penton Street.
Manages 8 major Royal Parks covering 5,000 acres: Bushy Park (with the Longford River), The Green Park, Greenwich Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Regent's Park (and Primrose Hill), Richmo...
Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb. Founded as the British Broadcasting Company on 18 October 1922 to do test radio transmissions from Marconi House in the Strand. On 14 Nove...
1883, Trustee of Lopping Hall, Loughton. According to G. Sludge, ".. a tea broker".
Footballer. Born in Silvertown and known as 'Nobby'. He worked for the local electrical engineering company Seimens, and played for Charlton Athletic football club. In WWI, he signed up with the Ro...
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