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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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Bedford Park Society
On the back of the panel 8 Bedford Park men are featured, each with a paragra...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Bedford Park Society
Alec Dickson, 1914 - 1994, founder VSO & CSV, lived and died here. Bedfor...
Beryl Brownsword, architect & conservationist, lived here, 1922 - 2007. B...
T.A. Greeves, 1917 - 1997, architect & artist co-founder of the Bedford P...
John Butler Yeats 1839 - 1922 artist W.B. Yeats 1865 - 1939 poet Jack B. Yeat...
A society that exists to encourage interest in, and to care for the environment and history of Peckham and the surrounding area.
From the Picture source website: "The Turk’s Head was bought from the Council and renovated by our charity in 1992. Now it provides a café and affordable workspace and the rental income pays our ch...
We think the "Croydon's Heritage" plaques must be erected by a section of Croydon Council. Certainly the Picture source website refers to the heritage plaques.
Now known as Nunhead cemetery, it was one of the so-called 'magnificent seven' cemeteries, opened on the outskirts of London in the nineteenth century, to alleviate the overcrowding in parish buria...
Ceramic manufacturing company. Began with a factory at Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth. Initially a partnership of John Doulton, Martha Jones, and John Watts, Jones left in 1820 leaving the company name as ...
The London Fire Engine Establishment, formed in 1833 under the leadership of James Braidwood, was a private organisation funded by insurance companies, mainly aimed at saving material goods from fi...
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