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
Councillor Mrs Beatrice Lilian Tate
Beatrice Tate School (41 Southern Grove, E3) has researched their namesake and it is there we found this photo, captioned: "Beatrice Lilian Tate, Mayor of Bethnal Green 1952-53 (centre); Henry Edwa...
2 memorials
W.Whitaker Thompson
Vice-Chairman, in 1908, and Chairman of the London County Council.
2 memorials
Sir Simon Milton
Deputy Mayor of London: 2008 - 2011, Leader of Westminster City Council: 2000 - 2008, Chairman of the Local Government Association: 2007 - 2008. Chief of staff to Boris Johnson from 2009 during his...
6 memorials
William Henry Berkeley, Viscount Portman
Lord William Henry Berkeley Portman, 2nd Viscount Portman, of the Portman family. Seems he did not use 'William' but went by 'Henry'. He had 6 sons but they must have been less successful at produ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Kenneth Williams
Comedy actor. Born Bingfield Street, N1. David Benson's 6 minute video of David Benson's Kenneth Williams walk showing the Argyle Square area of London where Kenneth grew up. And the BBC iPlayer ha...
5 memorials
Olympic Games - 1948
The 1948 Summer Olympics were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The second time London had hosted, 1908 being the first. The 1948 Olympics came to be known as the "Aus...
1 memorial
Alfred Phillips
Composer, publisher, piano dealer. Alfred William Phillips was born in Whitechapel to a family in 'trade', one of which was a music shop, where he learnt piano tuning. When he started his own busin...
4 memorials
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...
241 memorials
Tolpuddle Martyrs
6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, ...
2 memorials
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