Campaigner and community activist. Daughter of Sir Alan Herbert, she lived in Islington for almost 50 years. In the 1960s her house overlooked the City Road Basin and she led the campaign to save it from being filled in and built on or used as a car park. Founded the Islington Boat Club in 1970 and the annual Angel Canal Festival (initially Angel Day) in 1975 as a fund-raising event for the narrow boat 'Angel' used to give inner city children boat rides and trips into the countryside.
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Crystal Hale
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Crystal Hale
London Borough of Islington In memory of Crystal Hale, 1915 - 1999, saviour o...
Islington Boat Club
In gratitude to Crystal Hale, tireless campaigner & founder of The Isling...
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Dr Arthur Farre
Eminent obstetrician and physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria. Born Charterhouse Square. As a friend of Baron Rothschild and obstetrician to his wife, helped him set up the Evelina Children'...
1 memorial
John Alan Watts
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War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
1 memorial
Joy Harman
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
1 memorial
Joe Cahill
Devoted many years of his life to working with young people at Coram's Fields. Died before Spring 1993.
1 memorial
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Serjeant Beatrice Dunbar Thomson
Beatrice Dunbar Thomson was born on 2 April 1922 in Nairobi, Kenya, the younger of the two children of James Thomson (1890-1935) and Beatrice Thomson, née Dunbar (1885-1959). Her brother was James ...
War dead, WW2
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Help for Heroes
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1 memorial
Michael Rizzello
Sculptor and designer. Born Michael Gaspard Rizzello in London, to an Italian tailor. Served in the army 1944-8. Chose to follow his talent for art rather than that for singing. Began working for M...
4 memorials
Sir Denis Truscott, Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London in 1957
1 memorial
Julian Wall
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1 memorial
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