General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union, 1940 until his death. Born Warwickshire. Died Leicester where he had been addressing a May Day rally.
Alamy have a lovely photo of Deakin.
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Arthur Deakin, CH, CBE
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Arthur Deakin
Arthur Deakin House This block was built in 1956 by Stepney Borough Council a...
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Arthur Deakin, CH, CBE
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Ernest Bevin bust
Unveiled by Bermondsey Mayor Geoghegan, Chairman of the statue committee. The...
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William Grainger Wilson
William Grainger Wilson, 1919 - 2013 Grainger Wilson lived at the Hackney Almshouses for Disabled Soldiers & Sailors for 27 years, much of this time as Chairman of the Disabled Soldiers & S...
1 memorial
Emily Murray
Secretary & Estate Manager to Westminster Housing trust 1932 - 1951. At Peabody Nanny Nell remembers "Miss Murray used to come and collect the rent. She did everything. She was hard-working, ...
1 memorial
Capt. L. H. R. Claydon, Late RAMC (V)
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1919-1924. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
3 memorials
Ambassador Bjarne Lindstrøm
Appointed as Norwegian Ambassador to the Court of St James's (i.e. the UK) in July 2005
1 memorial
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President Reagan statue
W1, Grosvenor Square
Don't know about you but we find this type of inscription very tedious, and suspect a committee, probably more than one, has had a hand i...
2 subjects commemorated,
17 creators
Henrietta Barnett School
The school was founded in 1911 and named for Henrietta Barnett.
1 memorial
Moorgate tube disaster - Moorgate
EC2, Moor Place, Moorgate tube station
Our page for the monument in nearby Finsbury Square lists the 43 people.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Thomas Bloodworth
As Lord Mayor of London 1665-6 he was sorely tested and found wanting. As the fire advanced he alone had the authority to create fire-breaks by demolishing buildings but he refused to make such an...
1 memorial
David Bowie
Musician and actor. Born David Robert Jones 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton. The family left here when David was 6 and moved to Plaistow Grove, Bromley. David changed his surname to avoid confusion wi...
Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
7 memorials
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