Battersea Park was re-opened to the public after extensive restoration.
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Battersea Park re-opened, 2004
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Battersea Park bandstand
Battersea Park was re-opened to the public by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT...
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Hilary Peters
Peters took out a lease on the derelict wharf and a house on Ballast Quay in 1963. Here she created a communal riverside garden from which grew a landscape business, Union Wharf Nursery Garden. Pr...
1 memorial
Henry Joshua (Jos) Brown
President of the Rotary Club of Enfield and local horticulturist.
1 memorial
Coram's Fields
The memorial at the entrance to these fields tells how this playground came into existence. It is the only public space in London where adults are not allowed without children.
3 memorials
William Morris Company
Originally founded as Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. in 1861 by William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite friends. It produced textiles, wallpapers, stained glass and tapestries, mainly with medieval-i...
1 memorial
John Runtz
Born at 3 William Street, Kingsland Road. He became a Tunbridge Ware manufacturer, then a music teacher. He broadened his interests to the general education of working-class children and became the...
Person, Education, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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H. J. E. Smith
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
1 memorial
John Hungerford Pollen
Decorative artist. Born 6 New Burlington Street to Richard and Anne, sister to Charles Cockerell. Ordained as an Anglican priest in 1845, but converted to Roman Catholicism in1852. He worked on man...
1 memorial
Princess Royal Nurses Home
WC1, Guilford Street
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer of 1933, the Princess Royal was suffering "a frantic debili...
1 subject commemorated,
12 creators
Beckenham Auxiliary firemen
BR3, Beckenham Road, 8, Beckenham Fire Station
Those killed at Old Palace School are also commemorated (not by name) on a plaque at the site of the original school, although this gives...
Civilian war dead | WW2
32 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
32 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Norwegian gratitude for support in WW2
See Norwegian Government-in-exile. This gratitude is made manifest each Christmas, since 1947, in the arrival of the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree, a gift from Norway.
1 memorial
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