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Groundwork

Categories: Gardens / Agriculture

An environmental agency based in Birmingham. It works with communities across the United Kingdom, to help them create places in which to live and work in a greener, more sustainable way and to improve their economic prospects.

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Groundwork

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Antony Antoniou

This sculpture is dedicated to the memory of Antony Antoniou, a friend to all...

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Fish Island

Leaside - Gateway to Fish Island Funded through Leaside Regeneration Ltd SRB4...

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New Gravel Pit Chapel - plaque

These railings were designed with pupils from Morningside School in 1999. The...

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Whales in The Thames

We were sceptical but a 2012 article in Time confirms: “Technically, the Quee...

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Other Subjects

Friends of Kelsey Park

Friends of Kelsey Park

Kelsey Park is in Beckenham, Kent. The objectives of the group are the conservation and protection of the park’s ecology, plants, animals, birds and its beauty. Its intention is to provide educatio...

Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Shandy Park / East London Cemetery

Shandy Park / East London Cemetery

Shandy Park is a green space a few blocks due south of this site. It was opened in 1837 as the East London Cemetery with its own chapel, by local landowner, John Thomas Barber Beaumont. Beaumont ar...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD

Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD

Financier and horticulturalist. He was born on 2 January 1916 in Westminster the second of the four children of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942) and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née B...

Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Finsbury Park

Finsbury Park

The land that makes up Finsbury Park was originally part of the Manor of Brownswood. The New River was built 1609-13. Copt Hall was first recorded in 1649 and was probably built to house the people...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Onyx Environmental Trust

Onyx Environmental Trust

We think this group is now (2015) called Veolia.

Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture, Philanthropy

1 memorial

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Napoleon III of France

Napoleon III of France

Last monarch of France. Son of Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon I's brother) and Hortense de Beauharnais, he was known as Louis Napoleon. He grew up in Switzerland and Germany, but due to involvement in r...

Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Royalty, France, Switzerland

2 memorials
Michael Whittard

Michael Whittard

Died, aged 39,  when a construction crane crashed. See Martin Burgess for details of the crash.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Mary Overie

Mary Overie

Traditions vary but one is that Mary was the daughter of John Overs, a very successful Thames ferryman in the tenth century.  She gave her inherited wealth to fund a convent which became St Mary Ov...

Fiction, Philanthropy, Religion

1 memorial
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Born, son of Elizabeth and John Dickens, at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth (where there is a museum). For a map showing many of his London addresses see Londonist. His family were so p...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous

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