From their website (the picture source): "founded in 1856 by three liberal MPs as a mechanism for expanding the field of voters eligible to elect Members of Parliament". We don't understand but since all records were lost in WW2 we probably never will. Now it is a property company.
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Gilt of Cain - Slave trade
This sculpture, 'Gilt of Cain', was unveiled by Bishop Tutu in commemoration ...
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J. Studds & Son
A building firm based in Barretts Grove, Stoke Newington, active in 1891. Sludgegulper has done the research for us: From British History "In 1880 John Studds, a builder and former carpenter, built...
2 memorials
Andrew Young
First valuer to the London County Council, 1889 - 1914. FSI (Fellow of the Surveyors Institute). Andrew Behan has researched this man: Andrew Young was born on 28 June 1848 in Westminster, the son...
1 memorial
8 Grenville Street
The Marchmont Association thoroughly research their plaques and they found some interesting information about Barrie’s home: “Barrie (1937) writes (in the third person) about his first residences ...
1 memorial
Rotherhithe Old Town Hall
Built in 1895 by the architects Murray and Foster. The caryatides can be seen in the image either side of the entrance at the right. In 1905 Rotherhithe merged with Bermondsey and St Olave and t...
2 memorials
1 memorial