Charity providing support for women with breast cancer. Founded by Betty Westgate, five years after she was diagnosed with the disease. Originally called the Mastectomy Association; the name was changed to Breast Care and Mastectomy Association of Great Britain in 1987, and again to its current name in 1994.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Breast Cancer Care
Betty Westgate MBE, 1919 - 2000, a pioneer and campaigner for breast cancer s...
Founded the Camden Road doctors' surgery in the late 1920s in the building where he also lived. He served there as a GP for 60 years, keeping the surgery open through the Blitz. It is one of the ...
Ian Macdonald Brown was born circa 1889 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, the youngest of the three children of John Macdonald Brown (1857-1935) and Caroline Helen Brown née Murray (1862-1928). ...
Pathologist. He was involved in founding haematology (the study of blood) and was a pioneer in the investigation and treatment of blood diseases. In the 1940s he established the Journal of Clinical...
Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1918-1942. Serving Sister in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
The splendid Lost Hospitals has been our source for this summary: Opened in 1866 as the Pimlico and Westminster Institute, a dispensary for women and children. 1873 the hospital bought and moved ...
High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire 1971-72. Chairman of Marler Estates plc. Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Major Leslie Sydney Marler, O.B.E., T.D. was born on 7 July 1900 in Northwood...
The Picture source has: "United Friendly Life Insurance was founded back in 1908, with their Head Offices based in London 42, Southwark Bridge Road, SE1."
Founded by wealthy German businessmen and artisans who left the City of London for the relative peace of Forest Hill. Temporary accommodation was used from 1875 until this pictured church was bu...
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts,...
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a ...
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