This photos show Rev. Knapper (in the white surplice, front left) at the opening ceremony for the hall. His daughters, now Kate Dillon (with the cushion) and Rosemary Watkins, are contributing to the ceremony of the occasion. The people are standing in the entrance porch where the plaques are now on the right hand wall. It shows how the doors and side windows have been changed.
Image source: Kate Dillon
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
All Saints Haggerston Church Hall
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Haggerston Road School - destroyed
{Upper plaque:} Original schools destroyed by enemy action 1941. This hall er...
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Wolf Club
Used to meet at The Coal Hole in the Strand. In about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading founder member. Qualification for membership: being forbidden by your wife to sing in the bath. So the club ch...
1 memorial
The Red Flag
A socialist song, written by Jim Connell. (supposedly on a train journey between Charing Cross and New Cross). It is the anthem of the British Labour Party, and is usually sung at the end of their ...
Concept, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous
1 memorial
Savage Club
A gentlemen's club, now in Whitehall Place, with its own website. Had premises at 6 Adelphi Terrace, from 1890 - March 1936.
1 memorial
1 memorial
John 'Jack' Kennedy
Campaigner. Born in Tipperary. He worked as a bricklayer both in the private sector and then for Islington Council. He was active in the building construction safety campaign and as a London commit...
1 memorial
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6 Burlington Gardens - Galileo
W1, Burlington Gardens, 6
There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
John Bacon
Bought Friary House and the estate in 1800. This could be John Bacon the Younger but it's a common name so probably not.
1 memorial
Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor
An exclusive club which only knights can join. Founded in 1908 to enable a joint opposition to the Walker Trustees who were enforcing their entitlement to collect monies from newly created Knights...
1 memorial
Tower subway
A tunnel beneath the Thames with entrances at Tower Hill and at Vine Lane on the south side. The second tunnel under the Thames (the first being Brunel's) and the first tunnel anywhere built using ...
1 memorial
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