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.
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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Arthur Deakin, CH, CBE
Arthur Deakin House This block was built in 1956 by Stepney Borough Council a...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Arthur Deakin, CH, CBE
Unveiled by Bermondsey Mayor Geoghegan, Chairman of the statue committee. The...
Chairman of the Hampstead Heath Management Committee, in 2012. From our Picture source, June 2015: "Outgoing chairman of the Hampstead Heath Committee, Jeremy Simons, has planted a tree in Golders...
Politician and radical. Born in London. he married Clementia Doughty in 1842, and they jointly supported many radical causes. In 1845 they met Giuseppi Mazzini the Italian patriot and became close ...
Born, son of Sir Robert, at Millbank House (alias: Peterborough House, Grosvenor House). Shown on this 1690 map to be approximately on the Thorney Street site now occupied by the Hilton Double Tree...
Conservative politician. Longest serving Leader of the Greater London Council, 1967 - 73. In 1981 became Baron Plummer of St Marylebone.
At around 4 am, the plane is thought to have got caught in an electrical storm when it was returning from a bombing raid on Cologne. Three of the crew and three civilians were killed after the plan...
Reigned: 1660 - 1685. Born at St James's Palace. The son of the beheaded Charles I, he was the king "restored" to the throne after the civil war. Married Catherine of Braganza in 1662 but she prod...
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
Also designed the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace (Londonist has a good post about this), the entrance façade to the V&A Museum, Admiralty Arch and the French Huguenot Church in Soho Square.
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