The main character of William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair. A cynical, but delightful, social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men.
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Becky Sharp
The houses each side were built about 1680. Boston House built in 1740, on th...
John H. Watson, MD, friend of Sherlock Holmes.
The (Literary) Club was founded in the Turk's Head Tavern, Gerrard Street, by Dr Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds 1764. The members included: Goldsmith, Boswell, Burke, Reynolds, Garrick.
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...
Born Dunmanway, near Cork, Ireland. Politician and writer. He wrote or co-wrote more than 50 novels including ‘Miss Misanthrope’ and ‘Donna Quixote’. Member of parliament from 1886 to 1900. Died Lo...
The blue plaque is on the site of number 13, now the United Reformed Church Trust’s UK headquarters. The other two plaques are inside, in...
Musician, leading skinhead, far right-wing fund-raiser. Born Ian Stuart Donaldson in Lancashire. Singer of white power rock band Skrewdriver and co-founder of Blood and Honour, a very successful n...
The two plaques containing the list of WW1 names are in the porch at the west end, either side of the entrance. The blue plaque to Wilbe...
Vera Atkins, née Rosenberg, Commander of the Order of British Empire, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honour. A Jewish pre-war British spy, Ve...
Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned beca...
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