Mary Tourtel
Author and artist. Born Mary Caldwell. She studied art and became a children's book illustrator. Her husband Herbert Tourtel, was news editor of the Daily Express. In 1920 the newspaper was looking...
1 memorial
East London Toy Factory
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing workshops where women were paid a pittance. Toys were no longer being imported from Germany, so the factory employed 59 women t...
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P. L. Travers
Author. Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland. She emigrated to England at the age of 25 and adopted the name Pamela Lyndon Travers whilst writing the Mary Poppins novels for which she ...
1 memorial
Josephine Trotman
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
1 memorial
George Tuck
Killed, aged 3, in the Downhills shelter WW2 tragedy, 19 September 1940.
War dead non-military, WW2
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Upper North Street school WW1 bomb
This bomb was one of those dropped during the first daylight bombing attack on London by a fixed-wing aircraft. Prior to this the bombs had been dropped from Zeppelins. Just before noon the bomb br...
5 memorials
Priscilla Wakefield
Born Priscilla Bell in Tottenham. Quaker philanthropist and author of feminist economics, scientific subjects, travel, children's non-fiction. Best known book was 'The Juvenile Travellers' which ha...
Person, Children, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare
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Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy
On Saturday the 3rd August 1912, the 2nd Walworth Troop of five adults and twenty-four young scouts sailed from Waterloo Bridge for Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey. They moored at Erith for the nig...
6 memorials
John Alan Watts
John Alan Watts was born 2 April 1927, together with his twin sister Joyce Constance Watts (1927-2022). They were the children of Harry Watts (b.1892) and Edith Watts née Bacon (1895-1944) and thei...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Benjamin Waugh
Social reformer and minister. Born in Settle, Yorkshire. Whilst working in the slums of Greenwich, he became appalled at the deprivations and cruelties suffered by children. He wrote 'The Gaol Crad...
4 memorials
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