Person    | Female  Born 1819  Died 1900

Emily Sparkes

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Emily Sparkes

Emily Carpenter, daughter of a Bromley gamekeeper, met George Sparkes while working as his housekeeper. In 1865 she became his second wife. "He is said to have educated the lively and intelligent Emily to share his intellectual and philanthropic interests." Widowed in 1878 she erected the fountain to commemorate her husband 2 years later. She remarried to become Mrs Dowling, but less happily. Information from London Parks and Gardens Trust.

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Emily Sparkes

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George Sparkes memorial

{Inscribed in the granite of the north, pavement, side of the plinth:} In aff...

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Judith Goodison

Judith Goodison

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1 memorial
G. W. Palmer

G. W. Palmer

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Jonathan Rashleigh

Jonathan Rashleigh

Born Wiltshire into a wealthy family. First class cricketer. Married Mary Pole Stuart in 1843 and Jane Elizabeth Pugh in 1869. In 1873 he was listed as the largest landowner in Cornwall. Died Menab...

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1 memorial

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Flight Lieutenant Wayne Aloes Becker

Flight Lieutenant Wayne Aloes Becker

Wayne Aloes Becker was born on 15 November 1911 in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, USA, a son of Aloes Seymour Becker (1886-1960) and Etta V. Becker née Rutan (1896-1919). He graduated from Sprin...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
YMCA

YMCA

EC4, St Paul's Churchyard

Williams was working as a buyer at Hitchcock, Rogers & Co., a large retail drapers at 72 St Paul's Churchyard. The situation of worke...

2 subjects commemorated
The Three Cripples public house

The Three Cripples public house

Pub in Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist".

Fiction, Commerce, Fictional, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Printing

Printing

EC4, Magpie Alley

Until the 1980s Fleet Street and the area around used to be dominated by the newspaper industry: the journalism and the printing.  These ...

1 subject commemorated
Tachbrook - Cowper

Tachbrook - Cowper

SW1, Bessborough Street

Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site.  In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...

1 subject commemorated