Group who frequented the Duke of Wellington public house in Cyprus Street, and erected the Cyprus Street memorial. The pub closed in 2005 and has been converted into residential use.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Duke of Wellington's Discharged and Demobilised Soldiers and Sailors Benevolent Club
"They shall grow not old..." is by Binyon. "When you go home..." is by Maxwel...
The tunnels under Clapham South station were used in WW2 as air raid shelter. And then in 1948 they were used to give initial housing to 236 Windrush migrants, such as John Richards. Within four we...
A community group with the aim of safeguarding the character, quality and integrity of the environment around Wandsworth.
144 Mackenzie Road. This photo dates from the 1930s. Destroyed by a WW2 V2 rocket.
St John’s Wood was once part of the Great Forest of Middlesex. Until the end of the eighteenth century (when plans for residential development first appeared) it remained in agricultural use. By 17...
Founder of the North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers in Holloway in 1913. At that time, around 10% of children in Islington died before their fifth birthday. She and her coll...
Portland Place is an extremely wide road for London, and was built like that in the late 18th century. The Duke of Portland owned all the...
Composer. Born 15 Theobalds Road, of a mixed race couple, his father being a Sierra Leonean Creole, and brought up in Croydon. His surname was Taylor and he was given the names Samuel Coleridge in ...
Historian. novelist and biographer. Born at Dartington Rectory, Devon. He intended to become a clergyman, but his doubts expressed in his novel 'The Nemesis of Faith' changed his mind and he turned...
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has been administered by the Society ever since.
Pastor and philatelist. He had been a collector of stamps for most of his life, but his collections and library were lost when his house was looted by members of the occupying Russian army. His col...
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