Person    | Male  Born 25/11/1904  Died 17/10/2005

Ba Jin

Author and political activist. Born China as Li Yaotang.  Ba Jin was his pen name.  Learnt and advocated Esperanto. Spent 1927-8 in France. Returned to Shanghai. From 1983 suffered with Parkinson's Disease. Died Shanghai.

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Ba Jin

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Anarchists

This art work is in the style of Donald Rooum. He was the Anarchists' self-ef...

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Thomas Ross

Thomas Ross

Chairman of Committee, Vestry of St. Pancras

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Old Poplar Town Hall

Old Poplar Town Hall

At Poplar High Street, Woodstock Terrace corner. Listed Grade 2, architects: Hills, Fletcher and Harstons. Built in 1870 for the Poplar District Board of Works, which in 1900 became the Poplar Boro...

Building, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
John Kettle

John Kettle

Chairman of the Plaistow Library Committee in the Borough of West Ham in 1902. Apart from the information and image of John Kettle that is contained on the London Wiki website our research has fou...

Person, Politics & Administration, Scotland

1 memorial
Charles Edmund Sugden

Charles Edmund Sugden

Warden of Girdlers Hall in 1960

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Oliver Jones

Oliver Jones

Chair of Lady Workers' Homes Ltd in 1936. A founding member of the Holly Lodge Estate Committee, a plot holder and a Trustee.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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United Nations 50th Anniversary

United Nations 50th Anniversary

SW1, Tothill Street, Central Hall

These two plaques are commemorating the same thing.

2 subjects commemorated
Karla Roman

Karla Roman

E1, Whitechapel High Street

Killed at 9am as she cycled to work, by a coach. As far as we can tell the coach turned left across her path, as she also turned left out...

2 subjects commemorated
Jerwood Medical Centre

Jerwood Medical Centre

NW1, Peto Place, Jerwood Medical Centre

The content of this plaque is rather dull but we love the quality brickwork.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
British Museum War Memorial

British Museum War Memorial

WC1, Great Russell Street, British Museum

Designed and carved by Eric Gill.

War dead | WW1, WW2
17 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Wilfred Wood, VC

Wilfred Wood, VC

Awarded the VC for his heroism on 28 October 1918, age 21, while serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers. "When the advance was held up he ran forward firing his Lewis gun from the hip, he captured...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial