The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has been administered by the Society ever since.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Heath & (Old) Hampstead Society / Hampstead Plaque Fund
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Heath & Hampstead Society
This stone was placed here in the Millennium year 2000 AD to commemorate the ...
John Carswell
This tree was planted by the Heath and Old Hampstead Society in its Centenary...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Heath & (Old) Hampstead Society / Hampstead Plaque Fund
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Avenue of trees - Hampstead Heath
This avenue was replanted in November 1988 to replace trees destroyed by a hu...
Bell Moor House - Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham, 1879 - 1961, conductor and impresario, lived here, 1937 -...
Cecil Beaton - NW3
Sir Cecil Beaton, 1904 - 1980, photographer and designer, was born and lived ...
Charles de Gaulle - NW3
De Gaulle lived here with his family, September 1942-44 (though these dates v...
Other Subjects
Thomas Dunckerley
Freemason. Following a naval career, he was appointed a Provincial Grand Master. He instituted a national body for Templar masonry, which was made possible by an annuity obtained from King George I...
Chelsea Society
The Chelsea Society was founded by the Chelsea author Reginald Blunt (son of Gerald), with the aim of protecting the historical fabric of Chelsea and of influencing future environmental changes.
William Samuel Abbs
Chairman and Secretary of Webheath Tenants Association for over 30 years, and married for 56 years. From the Camden New Journal "Bill Abbs was primarily known in Camden as an “old school” fighter ...
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...
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Joseph Hardcastle
Merchant and evangelical activist. Born Leeds. Came to London in 1766. Good friend of Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect. Co-founder of the London Missionary Society in 1795 and its treasurer for...
427 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
The picture source gives "No. 427 Squadron formed at Croft ...{County Durham}... as another of the RCAF's bomber squadrons, becoming part of No. 6 Group on 1 January 1943." Moved to RAF Leeming, Y...
Thomas Clarkson
Leading campaigner against the slave trade. A founding member of The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1787, whose work was later taken over by the Anti-Slavery Society. A report of...
Major General Sir Henry Havelock
Born near Sunderland. Joined the army against his father's wishes. Served in India and the First Afghan War. Recaptured Cawnpore in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Died in the recently relieved Luckn...
Princess Alice disaster
London's worst peacetime disaster. The Princess Alice was a passenger paddle steamer, making what was called a 'moonlight trip', from Swan Pier near London Bridge to the former Rosherville Pleasure...
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