By 1717 the Masonic lodges were already clubs having no connection to stone-masonry. Four London lodges met at the Goose and Gridiron pub in St Paul's Churchyard and formed the first Grand Lodge, initially just to have one dinner a year.
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Grand Lodge of England
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Freemasons
Corporation of the City of London Near this site the Grand Lodge of English ...
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Philmore 'Boots' Davidson
Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. The Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) left Trinidad in July 1951 to take part in the Festival of Britain. Davidson was one of the 11 ...
1 memorial
Daphne Doreen Abbs
Daphne Doreen Abbs was born as Daphne Doreen Miles on 25 September 1930. She was the youngest of the three children of Gilbert Redvers Miles (1900-1958) and Lily Rose Miles née Lines (1901-1974). H...
1 memorial
Pepe Francis
Pepe Francis MBE from Trinidad, created the band, Ebony with 2 friends in 1969. He's taken part in Notting Hill Carnival since the beginning. Source: Pan Podium, Google Arts and Culture.
1 memorial
Carol Paula Chapman
Trustee, fundraiser and volunteer of the Charles Dickens Museum. The 2004 book 'Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of His Informal Language' by Norman Francis Blake was dedicated "In...
1 memorial
Arsenal Football Club Supporters
Often referred to as 'Gooners', being a play on the team's nickname of the 'Gunners'.
2 memorials
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
403 memorials
St Andrews - charity girl
EC4, St Andrew Street, St Andrews Church - west door
This building is St Andrews Holborn. There has been a church here since at least 951 AD. It escaped the 1666 Great Fire but was so dilapi...
1 subject commemorated
16 memorials
Great Storm of 1987
In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East England. In four violent hours London lost 250,000 trees. Its skyline changed for ever. 22 people were killed in Englan...
11 memorials
World War 2
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
380 memorials
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