The Friends of Burgess Park are an association of people and other interested groups who are concerned to protect, promote and enhance an important, inner-city London park.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Friends of Burgess Park
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Jessie Burgess
The plaque is one of a series in the Burgess Park Heritage Trail. They are us...
Newby's ice store
Newby's ice store stood on the north bank of the canal in the 1860s. Ice was ...
Passmore Edwards Library, Baths and Washhouse
Passmore Edwards Library, Baths and Washhouse a 'one-stop shop', opened in 19...
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Enfield Society
Founded as the Enfield Preservation Society, and renamed The Enfield Society in 2007.
2 memorials
Croydon East Rotary Club
Rotary clubs were founded to encourage fellowship amongst members of local business communities.
4 memorials
Marine Society
From the Marine Society: "Founded with the aim of providing men to fight in the King's ships as Britain faced war with most of Europe, The Marine Society was the world's first charity dedicated to ...
1 memorial
The Drum
The tunnels under Clapham South station were used in WW2 as air raid shelter. And then in 1948 they were used to give initial housing to 236 Windrush migrants, such as John Richards. Within four we...
1 memorial
Sydenham Society
A society that aims to be a voice for Sydenham, and to make it a better place to live and work.
1 memorial
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Westminster City Council
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St John's in 1727 but it was still run as a single vestry. In 1855 the two parishes were reformed into the Westminster Distric...
183 memorials
International Exhibition + RHS Garden, South Ken
Under the direction of Prince Albert the profits of the 1851 Great Exhibition were used to purchase land in South Kensington for cultural and educational use. Most of the northern half was, 1861-88...
1 memorial
Round Hill House
In living memory this was "very run down and some kind of Labour Party social club." Elsewhere: "The Sydenham and Forest Hill Social Club ... was in Round Hill House from the 1930s until, I suppos...
2 memorials
Essex House - E3
In 1891 C. R. Ashbee moved the workshops of the Guild of Handicraft from 34 Commercial Street to Essex House, at 401 Mile End Road, an early eighteenth-century mansion. The guild prospered at Essex...
1 memorial
Queen Victoria's Kensington subjects
"... her loyal Kensington subjects" which probably means some of the wealthy people who lived in Kensington.
1 memorial
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