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.
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David Davies
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Princess Royal Nurses Home
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer...
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John Procter, the younger
Grandson of Mary and John Procter, died aged 9 months. We don't actually know that his surname was Procter since John had one daughter as well as three sons.
Dr Barnardo
Missionary and social worker with the British poor, especially children. Born Thomas John Barnardo in Dublin with a Prussian father. "Brought to Christ" in 1862. Arrived at 30 Coburn Street in 1866...
Person, Children, Jack the Ripper suspects, Social Welfare, Ireland
Kate Greenaway
Illustrator of children's books and poet. Born 21 Cavendish Street N1 (now entirely post-war blocks of flats). She and her family moved to Upper Street in 1852. She worked for London branch of Marc...
First Belgian School WW1
By June 1915, the population of Belgian refugees in Britain rose to 265,000. But we couldn't find anything on the web about the school in Cale Street.
Effie Bourne Taylour
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.
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St Peters Eaton Square - WW1 memorial - names
SW1, Eaton Square, St Peters
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Joseph Priestley statue
WC1, Russell Square, 30
The thinker in a cubby-hole effect is enhanced by being shrouded in netting (to keep the pigeons off). August 2017: A letter in The Guar...
Hilda Doolittle
WC1, Mecklenburgh Square, 44
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