Established in the East End as the Bedford Institute Association to act on Education, Religious Effort, Moral Training, and Relief of the sick and destitute. Named for the Quaker silk merchant and philanthropist, Peter Bedford.
1893 they were given Hoxton Hall in William Isaac Palmer's will. 1998 renamed as Quaker Social Action and a new 99-year lease on Hoxton Hall was issued.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Bedford Institute / Quaker Social Action
Hoxton Hall. Built 1863 as a music hall. Owned since 1893 by Bedford Institu...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Bedford Institute / Quaker Social Action
Joseph Allen Baker MP laid this memorial stone on behalf of the Bedford Insti...
Former primary school, presumably named for Amy Johnson, the connection being the (sort of) proximity of Croydon Airport.
Public school. Its full name is The Royal College of St Peter in Westminster. Pupils were taught here from at least the 12th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was re-founded by Q...
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) in which she described marriage as "legal prostitu...
Person, Education, Gender Issues, Philosophy, Seriously Famous, Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden
Our drawing, from Exploring Southwark,shows the building to the right of the Mission before the Club building arrived.This website also gives the history of the construction of the two buildings, a...
The photo of the plaque comes from Jewish East End. We cannot see the plaque outside the building so perhaps it is inside, or lost, or w...
Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who worked his way into being an established travelling jeweller by 1867, when he married and came with his wife, Ada, to London...
This is a trail that has gone cold. We know of two other plaques which are part of it (Our Lady of the Assumption and Deptford Broadway), but none of the local libraries has full details.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. This was celebrated all year but particularly on the weekend of 4 and 5 June 1977, the following week and the weekend of the Qu...
Born as George Bryan Brummell in Downing Street, his father being Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Lord North. A gambler and dandy and one of the Prince Regent's favourites, he set the dres...
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