The City of London was well in advance of other parts of London when it came to sewerage.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Commissioners of Sewers
Commemorated ati
St Olave, Silver Street - road widened
St. Olave’s Silver Street. This churchyard was thrown back and the road widen...
Other Subjects
Edith Neville
A local reformer honoured with the naming of a primary school after her. Known for her work with the St Pancras Housing Association, she also founded the St Pancras People's Theatre. Elsewhere, w...
Edward Owen Greening
Co-operative movement activist and social reformer. Born at Warrington, Lancashire. He joined the Anti-Slavery Society and was a supporter of the Northern cause in the American civil war. His invol...
Girls Friendly Society
From English Heritage: "... founded in 1875 by Mary Townsend as an Anglican organisation that offered care and support to such women, through seven 'lodges' across west London, in areas like Ealing...
Family allowances
Pioneered by Eleanor Rathbone, specified in the 1942 Beveridge Report, Family Allowances were introduced in a 1945 Act of Parliament and came into operation in 1946. It was the first time that a f...
Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society Ltd
The picture shows the first premises of this organisation, before they moved in, at the corner of Falmouth Street and Maryland Street in Stratford. Started by a group of men at Stratford Railway W...
Previously viewed
Sir Edmund Stockdale
Born into the landed gentry. Began his career with the Bank of England in 1921. Knighted in 1955 for services to banking. Lord Mayor of London 1959-60.
Anat Rosenberg
Anat Rosenberg was born on 22 July 1965 in Hadera, Israel and came to London in 1990. She was an administrator for the charity NCH Action for Children (now called Action for Children) and lived in ...
Councillor Victor G. Read
Hon. Treasurer of of the Council of the Hornsey Central Hospital in 1937.
Dr. John Snow
W1, Frith Street, 54
Dr. John Snow, 1813 - 1858, pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist lived in a house on this site.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them