The memorial at the entrance to these fields tells how this playground came into existence. It is the only public space in London where adults are not allowed without children.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Coram's Fields
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Other Subjects
1 memorial
Mary Redfern
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 13. Buried in grave 5 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
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
1 memorial
Albert Edward Dack
Albert Edward Dack is the boy lying on his side on the front right in the photograph of the scout troop. Albert Edward Dack was born on 1 August 1899 in Walworth, the fourth of the ten children of...
2 memorials
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Harrow School - WW1 memorial
HA1, Peterborough Road, Harrow War Memorial Building and Speech Room
The plaque was laid in 1921 (British Pathe film) and the building was opened on 3 June 1926 by the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin and th...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Greta Gynt
Actor. Born as Margrethe Woxholt in Oslo, Norway. Was in Britain aged 5 but by age 12 she was back in Oslo performing as a dancer. 1934 she returned to Britain to promote her film career. The IMDB...
1 memorial
Putney School of Art
Founded by William Lancaster, Baron Pollock and Sir Arthur Jelf. For the first 11 years this was based in rooms over the parish offices in Putney High Street. Lancaster then funded the freehold s...
1 memorial
Cadby Hall
In 1894 J. Lyons & Co. acquired Cadby Hall, an old piano workshop, which they turned into their factory producing standardised, consistent products for their restaurants. From our picture sour...
1 memorial
S. A. Clarke
Private Stanley Abel Clarke was born in 1887 in Hendon, one of the nine children of Samuel Albert George Clarke and Susan Clarke. His father was a Gardener. On 17 February 1889 he was baptised, to...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
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