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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Trevor Burfield
Owner and/or manager of the development company Centremoor Ltd in 1972. Arranged for the erection of the replacement plaque commemorating Lenin, on 16 Percy Circus. Present at the unveiling. His c...
1 memorial
Barton House, Stoke Newington
The house is said (Hackney Gazette) to have been named for Joseph Beck's grandfather. Grace's Guide suggests that Beck and his family moved here between 1881 and 1891. At the time the house was ...
1 memorial
40 Great Ormond Street
An early 18th century house, demolished in 1965 with its doorcase being rescued and reused in Great James's Street.
1 memorial
Tottenhall Manor
Dates back to at least the 15th century. Purchased by Charles Fitzroy (later Lord Southampton) and in 1761 he commissioned a survey of the land contained. It seems to have encompassed a large area...
1 memorial
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Homer
Ancient Greek poet. Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, which date from somewhere in the range 9th - 7th century BC.
5 memorials
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
Job Drain
Soldier. Born Job Henry Charles Drain in Barking, Essex. In WW1 he was a driver in the 37th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. On 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau, France, he and another driver saved two B...
3 memorials
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