Co-founder of the charity 'Kith and Kids' (with Doreen Collins) and 'Disability Law'.
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Eddy Renton
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Eddy Renton
{On the new metal plaque:} This tree is re-dedicated to Eddy Renton (1934 - 1...
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Kindertransport
10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. This was organised mainly by World Jewish Relief, but many Quakers helped the children at stations on the jo...
Event, Children, Transport, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland
Eton Mission Rowing Club
From Hear the Boat Sing: "EMRC has a fascinating history and was started in the East London docklands in the late 19th century by a group of old Etonians, who saw it as their mission to help boys i...
Upper North Street school WW1 bomb
This bomb was one of those dropped during the first daylight bombing attack on London by a fixed-wing aircraft. Prior to this the bombs had been dropped from Zeppelins. Just before noon the bomb br...
Christ Church Charity School, Spitalfields
From British History online (mainly): In 1708 a charity school started in Spitalfields, the boys somewhere in Brick Lane, the girls somewhere in what is now Princelet Street. In 1782-3 a new school...
Newbery Medal
From Wikipedia: a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The award is given to the author of the most disting...
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Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1992 to 31 December 1996. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 14 November 1922 and his Wikipedia page confirms that he died, aged 93 year...
National Firefighters memorial
EC4, Sermon Lane
Two figures in the sculpture are based on a photograph, “A relief crew damping down in Cannon Street, 17th April 1941” but we cannot find...
2 subjects commemorated, 8 creators
Chingford Mount Cemetery
E4, Old Church Road, 121
Chingford Mount Cemetery Developed in 1884 by the Abney Park Cemetery Company on land originally called "Caroline Mount", named after the...
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