Group    From 1999 

Friends of Vauxhall Park

Established in 1999, the Friends of Vauxhall Park is a voluntary group whose aim is to protect and enhance Vauxhall Park as a place of freedom, recreation and enjoyment for all sections of the local community.

Their excellent history section has been one of the main sources for all our information.

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Friends of Vauxhall Park

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Edgar Wilson's model houses

These model houses were made for Vauxhall Park in 1949 by Edgar Wilson of Nor...

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Fawcett house - Vauxhall

We're not experts so we'll accept that the tree is a mulberry. And the tree e...

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Anglo-Norse Society

Anglo-Norse Society

From the Picture source website: "The Anglo-Norse Society in London is a registered charity for the purpose of promoting understanding between Britain and Norway through learning about each other’s...

Group, Community / Clubs, Norway

1 memorial
Chingford Mount Cemetery

Chingford Mount Cemetery

Laid out on the site of the house and grounds of Caroline Mount, it was opened as a sister site to the already established Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington (see Abney House and Park). Among ...

Place, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Rick "Trixy" Hunter

Rick "Trixy" Hunter

Popular man at the Cricketers.

Person, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Nathan Pass

Nathan Pass

Part of Somers Town Community.

Person, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Kit-Cat Club

Kit-Cat Club

18th century London club with political (Whig) and literary interests. Tending to the clandestine it met, at different periods, at the Trumpet Tavern, the Fountain Tavern and at Barn Elms. In sum...

Group, Community / Clubs, Literature, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Smith, Elder & Co.

Smith, Elder & Co.

Publishers at 65 Cornhill (the picture) until 1868.  Also at 15 Waterloo Place. Their first big success was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.   They also published: Thackeray, Darwin, Ruskin, Browning...

Group, Commerce, Journalism / Publishing, Literature

1 memorial
War Savings Campaign

War Savings Campaign

Second World War gives a good description of the story behind these plaques.  Each year the fundraising was given a different focus:  Communities would have a fund-raising committee which worked wi...

Event, Philanthropy

2 memorials
Hannah Brown

Hannah Brown

Mrs Hannah Brown was Angela Burdett-Coutts' governess and long-time companion. At Folkstone History we learn that her husband was "Dr. William Brown. Hannah Meredith, before her marriage in 1844, w...

Person, Friend / family

2 memorials