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Hayes Literary Society

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We can find little about this group but they were very active in 1992 re. Orwell.

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Hayes Literary Society

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George Orwell - Hayes

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903 - 1950, lived and worked here as senio...

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Downs Hotel

Downs Hotel

The Pickwick Bicycle Club was founded here on 22 June 1870. At that first meeting, it was decided that the Downs Hotel should be the general rendezvous for bi-weekly excursions on Wednesdays and Sa...

Place, Commerce, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Bostall Estate

Bostall Estate

In 1887 Bostall Farm was bought by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society and run to provide vegetables for the Co-op shops and food for the Society’s horses and pigs. By 1899 it had been decided t...

Place, Architecture, Commerce, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Baker Street Irregulars

Baker Street Irregulars

The Baker Street Irregulars is a literary society dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Victorian world.  It is the oldest existing Sherlockian soci...

Group, Community / Clubs, History, Literature

2 memorials
Mr. J. Welbelove

Mr. J. Welbelove

Member of Kingston Spiritualist Church in 1927.

Person, Community / Clubs, Religion

1 memorial
Friends of the Royal London Hospital

Friends of the Royal London Hospital

Registered charity also known as 'Friends of the London Hospital (Whitechapel)' and 'League of Friends'. We're guessing that this is the current form of the 1908 "friends of the hospital" that erec...

Group, Community / Clubs, Medicine

1 memorial

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Carrie Reichardt

Carrie Reichardt

Artist active in 2020 with a number of long-running projects, and involved in a number of campaigns. She is a long-time campaigner against the death penalty and communicated with Herman Wallace for...

Person, Art

24 memorials
Sir Richard Westmacott

Sir Richard Westmacott

Sculptor. Born Grosvenor Square. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. His son, with the same name was also a successful sculptor.  Died at home at 14 South Audley Street.

Person, Sculpture

10 memorials
Queen Alexandra

Queen Alexandra

Wife of Edward VII, mother of George V. Born at the Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. As an adult gradually became profoundly deaf.   It is said the Queen Victoria learnt the British Sign La...

Person, Royalty, Denmark

10 memorials
Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell

Born at Kinnordy House, near Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Geologist. A practicing lawyer, deliberately working all over the country so he could study the local geology. His multi-volume "Principles...

Person, Law, Science, Scotland

3 memorials
The Westwood Partnership

The Westwood Partnership

Architects active in 1990.

Group, Architecture

1 memorial