From their website: "The FBU is one of the UK’s oldest specialist trade unions, with a proud history. Since 1918 the union has supported firefighters, influenced fire safety policy and won improved pay, terms and conditions for its members."
At Remembering our Fallen Heroes they have a long list of names under the title 'In the line of duty'.
See also Firemen Remembered.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Fire Brigades Union
Unveiled on the 34th anniversary of the fire and Townsley's death.
From FBU: "The first memorial plaque to honour the lives of firefighters who ...
To mark the 60th anniversary of the fire this plaque was unveiled, on one of ...
Honouring the bravery and sacrifice of Hamish Pettit of the London Fire Briga...
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.
We are grateful to Mike Keogh for giving us (via Facebook) some history of this society: Founded in 1984 by Robert Smith as the Ladywell Village Society, by 2015 it has been renamed the Ladywell So...
This 1870 map shows that the land between Stoke Newington Common and Hackney Downs, to the east of where the railway was to be built, was entirely undeveloped and occupied by three large areas, eac...
A socialist song, written by Jim Connell. (supposedly on a train journey between Charing Cross and New Cross). It is the anthem of the British Labour Party, and is usually sung at the end of their ...
Concept, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous
Lions Clubs International were begun on 7 June 1917 in America by a Chicago businessman. The first Lions Club in the UK was formed in London in 1950. From LionsMD105: "We are one of the largest se...
At 8 All Saints Road, Notting Hill. Created and owned for 24 years by Crichlow. It was a centre for political and social activism within the African and Caribbean culture. Visitors included: Jim...
Place, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Race Issues
The piazza, created in 1630 by Inigo Jones for Francis the 4th Earl of Bedford, attracted stalls and hawkers so in 1670 the 5th Earl decided to formalise and profit from the situation and obtained ...
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852 the family moved to Hampstead and GMH attended Highgate School where he flourished. At Oxford University he converted ...
Four art galleries. The original was founded in Millbank in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art. It was renamed in 1932 after Henry Tate who had laid the foundations for the collection. Ta...
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