Event    From 21/4/1859 

First drinking fountain

Categories: Food & Drink

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First drinking fountain

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First drinking fountain

DrinkingFountains gives two pictures from the 'Illustrated London News' of th...

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Mangrove Restaurant

Mangrove Restaurant

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...

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1 memorial
Columbia Market

Columbia Market

In 1852, the area Novia Scotia Gardens being a notorious slum, Angela Burdett-Coutts bought it with the intention of developing healthy accommodation for the poor and a market for their use. Howeve...

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2 memorials
Swan and Hoop pub

Swan and Hoop pub

The pub in which John Keats, poet, was born, 1795.

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1 memorial
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association - 80th anniversary

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association - 80th anniversary

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.

Event, Food & Drink

2 memorials
Highbury Barn

Highbury Barn

Long a rural pleasure resort for Londoners it became notorious in 1861, when Edward Giovanelli demolished the old buildings and built a lavish pleasure ground which attracted large crowds, includin...

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1 memorial