A centre dedicated to stimulating understanding and engagement between Britain and the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian world, through dynamic debates, networking, events, and education activities.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Canning House
Another seated statue to add to those listed at Peabody's. 2021: A petition ...
This 1893 map (extract here) shows the Station Hotel (P.H.) opposite the station but with no building behind. By 1933 this map show the PH building extending all the way back to Parkshot. The Crawd...
Trade unionist and politician. Born at 2 Shirbutt Street, Poplar. He helped bring about many local improvements, and in 1891 endorsed representation by the London Trades Council to restrict immigra...
A society that exists to encourage interest in, and to care for the environment and history of Peckham and the surrounding area.
The library on Clapham Common North Side was envisioned by Reverend George Forrester, Vicar of St Paul’s Church; Henry Bulcraig, a churchwarden of Holy Trinity Church, and William A Guesdon. It ope...
A charity for the preservation of public parks and gardens in London. It facilitated the creation of new public open spaces. First chairman was the Earl of Meath. In about 1890 the MPGA was based a...
Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture, Philanthropy
One of the (many) supposed origins of the word 'pom' for an Englishman, is that convicts were branded with the initials of 'Prisoner of Millbank'.
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...
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
The joint (along with Scotland) oldest national football team in the world. Its greatest success was winning the 1966 World Cup Championship - something it has been struggling to repeat ever since.
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