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Brook and Cranleigh House Residents Association

Categories: Community / Clubs

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Also known as "Brook and Cranleigh House Tenants and Residents Association". Active c. 2013.

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Brook and Cranleigh House Residents Association

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Charles Dickens - Cranleigh Street

In Dickens' time it was called Johnson Street. His house was number 29 though...

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Mike Leigh & Alison Steadman

Unveiled by Simon Callow who has never worked on a Leigh movie though he and ...

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Florence Keen

Florence Keen

Founder of the North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers in Holloway in 1913. At that time, around 10% of children in Islington died before their fifth birthday. She and her coll...

Person, Community / Clubs, Education

3 memorials
Doctor Innes Pearse

Doctor Innes Pearse

Medical practitioner and biologist. Born Innes Hope Pearse in Purley, Surrey. She worked on thyroid research at the Royal Free Hospital, with George Scott Williamson who she later married. Together...

Person, Community / Clubs, Medicine

1 memorial
Festival Pleasure Gardens - Battersea

Festival Pleasure Gardens - Battersea

The gardens were in the northern part of Battersea Park, which had been transformed as part of the Festival of Britain.  Among its features, were a tree walk and the popular Guinness clock (picture...

Place, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Savage Club

Savage Club

A gentlemen's club, now in Whitehall Place, with its own website. Had premises at 6 Adelphi Terrace, from 1890 - March 1936.

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Nobby Clark

Nobby Clark

In 2001-2 Clark was living close to Vauxhall Park and was a member of the Friends of Vauxhall Park.  He restored the model village there. Harry, his son, seems (2021) to be connected with Southwark...

Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design

1 memorial

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Henry Rogers

Henry Rogers

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
London Borough of Bexley

London Borough of Bexley

London Borough. Formed under the London Government Act of 1963 from the municipal boroughs of Bexley and Erith, Crayford Urban District and part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District.

Group, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Tower Hamlets Council

Tower Hamlets Council

The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middlesex. This division was a liberty, i.e. it was an autonomous area under the jurisdiction of the Constable of the Tower of...

Group, Politics & Administration

54 memorials
African and Caribbean Armed Forces

African and Caribbean Armed Forces

After the outbreak of WWI, black recruits could be found in all branches of the British armed forces. They volunteered at recruitment centres, and were joined by West Indians, travelling at their o...

Group

1 memorial
Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbur...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous

12 memorials