Mayor of Camden, October 1997.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Councillor Ray Adamson, Mayor of Camden
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Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ, Tree, 1998
Canadian Maple (Acer Saccharum). This tree was planted by the Rt. Honourable...
WB Yeats - tree
Friendship Tree Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo biloba) Planted by His Excellency D...
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Col. Robert Slingsby
Naval officer and administrator. Died of typhus at home in Lime Street. Some information at Pepys' Diary.
H. P. Clements
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
Heal's furniture store
John Harris Heal established a feather dressing business at 33 Rathbone Place, moving to Tottenham Court Road in 1818. This became a family business selling beds and moved to larger premises in the...
India House
An informal Indian nationalist organisation founded in 1905 by Shyamji Krishna Varma at 65 Cromwell Avenue. The term is also used to describe the building in Highgate where many of the student adhe...
Thomas Rainsborough
Grew up in Wapping. A spokesman for the Levellers and a colonel in the New Model Army. Killed by a Royalist raiding party during the siege of Pontefract. The Levellers arranged for his funeral, ...
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King George VI
Became king when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated. Like his father George V, he was born a second son and rather unexpectedly ascended to the throne. Like his grandfather, Edward VII, he was bor...
Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
Crocketts Leather Cloth Company Ltd
Odd that the monument does not use the name "Crocketts" but all the sources give that name for the Leather Cloth factory on this site. More information at London's Ghost Acres. The catalogue of th...
Burgess, Clark and Whittard
E14, Canada Square
The building in the background is 8 Canada Square, HSBC's London head office, and the building on which the 3 construction workers lost t...
First V2 attack - Chiswick
The first V2, which landed on the quiet suburb of Chiswick, killed three people and injured 22.