Former Labour leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Chris Roberts
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Nike Statue - Plaque 3
Presented to the Mayor and Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Councill...
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Chris Roberts
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Burma Campaign - Woolwich
The plaque dates the campaign from 1941, but other sources give it as 1942. T...
Victory in Europe Day - Woolwich 1
The quotation is one of several variations on the same theme. Possible origin...
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Baroness Garden of Frognal
LibDem politician. Created a Life Peer in 2007.
1 memorial
Emiliano Zapata
Leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. Born Mexico and died ther...
1 memorial
Raoul Wallenberg
Born near Stockholm. Worked for an import-export company owned by a Jewish Hungarian. Travelling frequently to Hungary, he learned Hungarian and become joint owner of the company. In spring 1944 th...
Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Social Welfare, Hungary, Sweden
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Thomas Joseph Whiffen
Studied at the Royal School of Mines. Joined his father's chemical supply business, based in Battersea in 1873. Churchwarden of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in 1901. It's possible that the church ward...
1 memorial
Thomas Hardy (radical)
Radical. Born Stirlingshire, Scotland. Came to London in 1774. 1792 co-founded the London Corresponding Society, a group advocating wider suffrage and parliamentary reform. Presecuted for high ...
1 memorial
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Oddfellows Hall Clapham
Originally opened by the Baptists as the Ebenezer Chapel, with the adjoining building, (the manse), known as the Ebenezer Cottage. Within a few years the Baptists moved elsewhere, and the chapel wa...
1 memorial
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Founder and first Govenor-General of Pakistan. Born on Christmas day and died on 9/11 - any celebrations of this man will have to compete with other newsworthy events. Born and died in Karachi. Sa...
1 memorial
3 subjects commemorated
W. N. Peckham
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Royal Docks
The Royal Docks is the area, including the three docks – the Royal Victoria (1855), the Royal Albert (1880) and the King George V (1921), collectively forming the largest enclosed docks in the worl...
1 memorial