From the picture source website: " founded in 1957 by Duncan Sandys, a British politician, and the former son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill. It campaigned to make better places for people to live. It ran until 2009 before going into administration due to a shortage of funding."
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Civic Trust
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George Webster fountain
{On the north face of the main body, above the water bowl:} To George Webster...
Greenwich Workshops for the Blind
These trees and benches, made of stone from the 1892 workshops for the blind ...
Kew Gardens Station footbridge
Opened in 1912, Kew Gardens station footbridge is an early and rare British e...
Wimbledon Village Improvement 1964
Wimbledon Village Improvement Scheme 1964 Completed by Wimbledon Village Asso...
Other Subjects
Philip Charles Hardwick
Architect of St Barts Hospital in 1861. Son of architect Philip Hardwick. We are not actually sure which of the two produced the Speke obelisk in 1866. Hardwick Snr has a track record in obelisks, ...
Studio Weave
A London-based idiosyncratic architecture practice. The picture we have used is from their page about the Aldgate project.
Glasgow School of Art
Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Government School of Design. It changed to its current name in 1853. The main building, shown in the picture, in Renfrew Street was designed by Charles Rennie Mackint...
W. Gilbee Scott
William Gilbee Scott had a practice at 25, Bedford Row. The only building, apart from the How Gateway, we can find by him is the Salvation Army Citadel in Sheffield. 2016: via Facebook Neil Jacks...
Sydney Perks
Sydney Perks FRIBA, FSA, was born on 2 January 1864 in Westminster, one of the eight children of Charles Perks (1807-1871) and Emily Marian Perks née Warner (1827-1919). On 22 January 1864 he was b...
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Florence Nightingale
Nurse, statistician, author. Born in Italy (go on, guess which city) while her parents were on the grand tour. Her sister was born one year earlier in Naples, and named Frances Parthenope, the Gree...
Bridewell Royal Hospital
Bridewell Palace was given by Edward VI in 1553 to the City of London to house this school, founded by royal charter in the same year. In 1867 the school moved to Surrey and changed its name to Ki...
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