Group    From 1963 

Bedford Park Society

Categories: Community / Clubs

Conservation group. Co-founded by two local residents, architect Tom Affleck Greeves and Harry Taylor, following the demolition of some historic houses and unsympathetic developments in the neighbourhood. They were supported by poet and conservation campaigner Sir John Betjeman.

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Bedford Park panel

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Alec Dickson

Alec Dickson, 1914 - 1994, founder VSO & CSV, lived and died here. Bedfor...

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Beryl Brownsword

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T. A. Greeves

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