The Automobile Association, originally set up to help motorists avoid police speed traps, opened its first office in Fleet Street in 1905.
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Staple Inn Hall
Staple Inn Hall, built in 1580, was destroyed by a flying bomb on the 24th August 1944. The Hall was rebuilt in its original form in 1955, incorporating timber & other materials saved from the...
1 memorial
The Theosophical Society
Formed in New York City by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others. The society's initial objective was the study of Occultism, the Cabala and Eastern religions...
1 memorial
Alec Clifton-Taylor
Architectural historian, author & broadcaster. He lived in Kensington most of his life and was President of the Kensington Society from 1978 until his death.
1 memorial
Hayes Literary Society
We can find little about this group but they were very active in 1992 re. Orwell.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Lord Northcliffe - Hampstead
NW3, Vale of Health, Rose Cottage
Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, 1865 - 1922, newspaper founder and editor, lived here, 1870 - 1873. Erected by the Heath and Hampste...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Drapers' Hall
EC2, Throgmorton Avenue
Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwell built his palace and in 1536 plotted the downfall of Anne ...
7 subjects commemorated
W. T. Smale
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Bart's - East Building
EC1, St Bartholomew's Hospital, East Building
This building faces onto the central courtyard.
3 subjects commemorated
1 memorial
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