Event    From 1983  To 1983

Hackney Peace Carnival

Maggie Thatcher in power, the cold war, Anglo-American capitalism, loony-left councillors in Hackney... ah, those were the days.

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Hackney Peace Carnival

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Hackney Peace Carnival Mural

Easteight gives some interesting information about this mural. Mike Jones fin...

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Stephen and Matilda Tenants' Co-operative

Stephen and Matilda Tenants' Co-operative

The first local authority estate under tenants' control in Britain. Became a limited company on 30 September 1982. Waymarking gives the interesting history of this organisation.

Group, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Time and Talents

Time and Talents

Community group. It originated with a group of committed Christian women who deplored the waste and futility of the protected lives of the majority of young girls who were only expected to be decor...

Group, Community / Clubs, Gender Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial
The inhabitants of Charlton

The inhabitants of Charlton

Charlton is an area of South-East London which still retains the feel of a village. Daniel Defoe described it as: 'A village famous, or rather infamous for the yearly collected rabble of mad-people...

Group, Community / Clubs

2 memorials
Janet Johnson

Janet Johnson

Welfare worker. All we can find out about her is contained in her plaque in Redcross Street where she lived. She was the manager of the Central London School for Orphans and Destitute Children at H...

Person, Community / Clubs, Education

1 memorial

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Henry Richard Hope Pinker

Henry Richard Hope Pinker

Bob Speel tells us that this sculptor's works are rare, in London at least, but he knows of some in Salisbury and Oxford. The NPG has "Hope-Pinker".

Person, Sculpture

2 memorials
AC Cars Limited

AC Cars Limited

AC Cars are Britain’s oldest car manufacturers having been producing cars since 1901. Founded by John Weller and John Portwine.  The company name comes from an early model, the Auto Carrier, pictur...

Group, Engineering, Transport

1 memorial
Greater London Council

Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone.  On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...

Group, Politics & Administration

241 memorials
Bernard Cassidy, VC

Bernard Cassidy, VC

Soldier. Born Bernard Matthew Cassidy in Fulham. He was a second lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers. At Arras, France, he was in command of the left company of his battalion,...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh

Children's storybook character. The creation of A.A. Milne, inspired by the teddy bear, made in Acton, belonging to his son Christopher Robin. The toy was named 'Winnie' after a Canadian black bear...

Fiction, Children, Fictional, Literature

1 memorial