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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Beryl Brownsword
Architect and conservationist. After WW2 she worked in the architectural practice run by Richard Sheppard. She was particularly active in the Bedford Park Society where she monitored planning appli...
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UK Centre for Carnival Arts
An organisation based in Luton and dedicated to carnival arts.
3 memorials
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Sir Francis Lycett
Methodist Worthies by George John Stevenson Vol IV, 1885, has a biography which tells the story of the 50 chapels, claiming that he laid the foundations of 40. We find this hard to believe (show us...
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Scouting for Boys
A book on boy scout training written by Robert Baden-Powell. It was originally published in six fortnightly instalments and contained information on 'self-survival', based on his boyhood experience...
2 memorials
St Mary Whitechapel parish boundary
E1, Commercial Street, 40, The Culpeper Public House
Plaque actually around the corner in Wentworth Street.
8 subjects commemorated
Bearman's Department Store
E11, Leytonstone High Road, 829
Bearmans Department Store. On this site stood 'Bearmans of Leytonstone' department store - "The Store with the Personal Touch". Opened by...
2 subjects commemorated,
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