Richard Henry Foster was born on 1 May 1921, the second of the three children of Bertie Foster (1888-1966) and Edith Kate Foster née Nixey (1891-1967). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter o...

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium

War dead, WW2

1 memorial

T. G. Clewlow

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1

1 memorial

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Lockerbie bombing

Pan Am 103 flying Heathrow to New York's JFK was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland. 270 were killed: 243 passengers, 16 crew, 11 on the ground.

Event, Terrorism, Tragedy, Scotland

18 memorials

Coronation Avenue bombing

Coronation Avenue consisted of a terrace of about 15 shops with five storeys of flats above and behind. The air raid shelter was beneath three of the shops. It suffered a direct hit by a bomb, resu...

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial

Mrs Gaskell

Novelist and short story writer. Born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson,Chelsea. Most of her childhood was spent with her aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire, the town upon which she based Cranford in the novel...

Person, Literature

1 memorial

Arthur Waley

Poet, translator and orientalist. He never actually visited China nor Japan.

Person, Poetry, China/Hong Kong, Japan

1 memorial

St Gabriel Fen(church)

Dating back to at least 1331, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire after which the parish united with that of St Margaret Pattens, in 1670 and then in 1954 was included in that of St Edmund t...

Building, Religion

3 memorials