The idea of adjusting clocks in order to benefit from daylight was first proposed in New Zealand in 1895, and was first implemented by Germany and her allies in WW1 (to save coal). William Willett came up with the idea independently in the UK in 1905 but it was not implemented here until WW1 and in the US in 1918.
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Daylight Saving Time
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William Willett - Chislehurst
William Willett, 1856 - 1915, noted house builder and initiator of British Su...
William Willett - W3
Hamptons International, the estate agents, occupy William Willett’s former es...
Other Subjects
Sutton Dwellings
In 1917 The Church Missionary Society sold its college in Upper Street and the building was replaced with Sutton's model dwellings.
1 memorial
2 memorials
Mr Charles Lacey
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
1 memorial
Sir Parker Morris
Sir George Parker Morris was Westminster's Town Clerk in 1951. 1960 founded the charity HACT. He led the Parker Morris Committee which drew up an influential 1961 report on housing space standards ...
1 memorial
Margaret McMillan
Socialist propogandist and educationalist. Born at Throgg's Neck, Westchester county, New York. Both her parents were from Scotland, and the family returned there when her father died. She attended...
1 memorial
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