A Metropolitan borough of the County of London. It was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Boroughs of St Pancras and Holborn to form the London Borough of Camden.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Borough of Hampstead
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Bell Moor House - Barratt
On this site stood the house Bell Moor where the historian of Hampstead, Thom...
Hampstead War Memorial
From the inscriptions it seems that the obelisk was created as a WW1 memorial...
King Edward VII's coronation tree
Borough of Hampstead This tree was planted by the Mayor, Mr Alderman C. F. Pr...
Other Subjects
John Alfred Barker, Deputy
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial
Sarah Reddish
Sarah Reddish was a Bolton-based trade unionist and suffragette, who was active in the cooperative movement. A supporter of women running for local elections as a springboard to gaining national vo...
1 memorial
Harold Laski
Born Harold Joseph Laski at Smedley House, Cheetham Hill, Manchester. His mother's maiden name was Frankenstein. He lectured at universities in Canada and America. Returning to Britain he became Pr...
Person, Education, Philosophy, Politics & Administration, Canada, USA
1 memorial
Rear-Admiral, Sir Henry Hart, KCH
Naval officer. Born Sussex. Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. See Indefatigable for more information, but one paragraph there is particularly relevant to Greenwich Hospital: "Following his reti...
1 memorial
John Verinder Kiddle
Trustee of the Norton Folgate almshouses in 1860.
1 memorial
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Heroes of Telemark
In 1943 Norwegian resistance commandos sponsored by the SOE raided the enemy-occupied Norsk hydro plant in the Telemark region of Norway. This successful raid sabotaged the machinery that was produ...
2 memorials
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
Born Shropshire. Served in the Napoleonic Wars. 1830 - 42 Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards (The Blues). The Horse Guards were part of the Household Cavalry and were based at Knightsbri...
1 memorial
Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
244 memorials
Chelsea Bridge
At the same time that Battersea Park was created the first bridge at its eastern corner was built (shown in the image). This was opened in 1858, as Victoria Bridge, by Queen Victoria on her way to ...
1 memorial
The Huguenots
French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Persecuted in France, in 1550 Edward VI signed a charter granting them asylum in England. See also French Protestant Church. The name emerged in ...
9 memorials
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