Group   

Croydon Council

Categories: Community / Clubs

We think the "Croydon's Heritage" plaques must be erected by a section of Croydon Council. Certainly the Picture source website refers to the heritage plaques.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Croydon Council

Creations i

Admiral Robert Fitzroy - SE19

Admiral Robert Fitzroy, 1805 - 1865, explorer and pioneer of weather forecast...

Read More

Ashleigh and India Houses

Ashleigh & India Houses, 1848. Houses for professors of the East India Co...

Read More

Cicely Mary Barker

Cicely Mary Barker, 1895 - 1973, artist and creator of the Flower Fairy child...

Read More

Croydon airport terminal building

Croydon's Heritage Croydon airport terminal building, 1928 - 1959, one of the...

Read More

Croydon Grand Theatre and Opera House

The Grand Theatre and Opera House stood on this site 1896 - 1959. Croydon's H...

Read More

Other Subjects

Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association

Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association

When we first researched this area in 2008 there were three plaques erected by the LGTA; others were erected later so we had to go back.   The first three plaques all end with the text "Awards for ...

Group, Community / Clubs

6 memorials
La Gioconda / Giaconda

La Gioconda / Giaconda

Back in the 1960s this was the place where would-be future pop icons hung out.  We've found references to: Marc Bolan, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Donovan, Small Faces, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix,...

Group, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Music / songs

1 memorial
Sir Joseph Lyons

Sir Joseph Lyons

Sir Joseph Nathaniel Lyons was a pioneer of mass catering. Chairman of J. Lyons and Co. Born Kennington,his father being a Jewish itinerant watch seller. Joseph was apprenticed to an optician. Mov...

Person, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Betty Knight

Betty Knight

Campaigner. Born in Finsbury. In 1996 she was the driving force behind the establishment of the Spa Green Management Organisation, a tenant-run group which looks after this council estate.

Person, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Mangrove Restaurant

Mangrove Restaurant

At 8 All Saints Road, Notting Hill.  Created and owned for 24 years by Crichlow.  It was a centre for political and social activism within the African and Caribbean culture.  Visitors included: Jim...

Place, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Race Issues

1 memorial