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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Horatia Nelson
Only child of Lord Horatio Nelson, was baptised at St Marylebone church in 1803.
1 memorial
Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy
On Saturday the 3rd August 1912, the 2nd Walworth Troop of five adults and twenty-four young scouts sailed from Waterloo Bridge for Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey. They moored at Erith for the nig...
6 memorials
Royal Ballet School
Originally founded by Ninette de Valois as the Academy of Choreographic Art. Its students are chosen purely for their dancing talent and not for any academic ability. Famous dancers and choreograph...
1 memorial
Anna Kendall
Headteacher of Christ Church Primary School, 1992 - 2009. The image comes from a 2010 interview.
2 memorials
Noel Falconer Filmer
Noel Falconer Filmer is 2nd from the right of the nine boys standing in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 13 December 1897, the seventh of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...
2 memorials
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Charles de Gaulle - NW3
NW3, Frognal, 99, St Dorothy's Convent, Frognal House
De Gaulle lived here with his family, September 1942-44 (though these dates vary slightly depending on source). See Musee de la Resistan...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Mountbatten Copse
SW1, South Carriage Drive
This memorial was planted just over two years after the violent death of Mountbatten.
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Charles Sargeant Jagger
Sculptor. Born Yorkshire. Started as an apprentice metal engraver for Mappin & Webb in Sheffield, then went to art school and studied sculpture under Lanteri. Served in WW1 in the Artists Ri...
5 memorials
Jose de San Martin plaque at statue
SW1, Belgrave Square, Opposite Halkin Street
We thank our language consultant, David Hopkins, for the translation.
1 subject commemorated
Old Operating Theatre
It was a conversion of part of the garret of St Thomas's Church in 1822. The odd location is explained by the fact that it abutted the female surgical ward of St Thomas's. The hospital began to mov...
1 memorial
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