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Heath & (Old) Hampstead Society / Hampstead Plaque Fund

Categories: Community / Clubs, History

The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has been administered by the Society ever since.

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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 ...

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John Carswell

This tree was planted by the Heath and Old Hampstead Society in its Centenary...

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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...

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Bell Moor House - Beecham

Sir Thomas Beecham, 1879 - 1961, conductor and impresario, lived here, 1937 -...

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Cecil Beaton - NW3

Sir Cecil Beaton, 1904 - 1980, photographer and designer, was born and lived ...

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Charles de Gaulle - NW3

De Gaulle lived here with his family, September 1942-44 (though these dates v...

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Christopher Wade

Erected between May 2017 and March 2019.

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Other Subjects

Mog Murphy

Mog Murphy

Eccentric landlady of the Turk's Head Wapping during WW2 - stayed open all hours for service personnel seeking news of their loved ones.

Person, Commerce, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Mothers Arms

Mothers Arms

A day nursery set up by Sylvia Pankhurst's suffragettes, giving mothers of working age the opportunity to go out and earn money. It occupied the former Gunmakers Arms public house.  This photo, tak...

Place, Community / Clubs, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Empire Memorial Sailors' Hospital

Empire Memorial Sailors' Hospital

Built following an appeal (largely organised by women) throughout the British Empire. It provided 205 single cabins for homeless merchant seamen in London, and by 1929 had accommodated over a milli...

Building, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group

Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group

This group was originally set up (2003 or earlier) to improve the Clapton Pond park and pond, and the surrounding area.

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
St George's Mission and St Peter's church, Wapping

St George's Mission and St Peter's church, Wapping

1856 Reverend Charles Fuge Lowder commenced work on the mission in Wapping (named for their church St George's-in-the-East). Initially it was met with hostility, but in time it came to play an impo...

Place, Community / Clubs

2 memorials

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Stephen Bird

Stephen Bird

Artist/designer/craft-person.  Born Stoke-on-Trent.  Initially we could find no information about "S. Bird" but Andrew Behan was more successful so we have him to thank for this page.

Person, Art, Craft / Design

3 memorials
Walter Gilbert

Walter Gilbert

Sculptor.  Born Rugby.  Cousin to Sir Alfred Gilbert.  His son, Donald, also sculpted and they often worked together.  Other works in London include: some gates at the Freemasons Hall (inside or ou...

Person, Sculpture

8 memorials
Rev. Evelyn Howard Morton

Rev. Evelyn Howard Morton

Rector of St Nicholas Tooting Graveney from 1893 until at least 1897, he was the eldest son of his predecessor in this role, Edward Howard Morton, rector 1880-1893. By 1897 Edward was retired in Bo...

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Charles Cowden Clarke

Charles Cowden Clarke

Author and Shakespearian scholar. Born in Enfield, at the school run by his father, Reverend John Clarke. John Keats was a pupil at the school for about 7 years (1803-10). Charles taught him and e...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Italy

1 memorial
Beryl Brownsword

Beryl Brownsword

W4, Rusthall Avenue, 40

Beryl Brownsword, architect & conservationist, lived here, 1922 - 2007. Bedford Park Society

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator