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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

Staple Inn Hall

Staple Inn Hall

Staple Inn Hall, built in 1580, was destroyed by a flying bomb on the 24th August 1944. The Hall was rebuilt in its original form in 1955, incorporating timber & other materials saved from the...

Building, Community / Clubs, Law

1 memorial
Freedom Press

Freedom Press

Anarchist publishing house in Whitechapel. Co-founded by Peter Kropotkin as an outlet and meeting place for the radical and anarchist thinkers of the day and has operated, with short breaks, ever s...

Group, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration

3 memorials
Garraways Coffee House

Garraways Coffee House

Garraway claimed to be the first to sell tea to the public, but not, as far as we can tell, at the Change Alley site, where he moved his coffee house after the Great Fire of 1666, replacing another...

Building, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

2 memorials
Anglo-Chinese friendship

Anglo-Chinese friendship

13 March 1972: diplomatic relations were established between the UK and the People's Republic of China. Since then, with the economic rise of China, the UK has tried to maintain good relations, a t...

Concept, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, China/Hong Kong

1 memorial

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Dame Clara Butt

Dame Clara Butt

Singer, Born Sussex.  At over 6 foot she had an impressive stage presence, as a recitalist and concert singer.  She also made some gramophone recordings.  Died North Stoke, Oxfordshire.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Francis Rolfe

Francis Rolfe

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst

Born Lancashire. Mother of Christabel, Sylvia, Henry (known as Frank, died aged 4), Adela and Henry (Harry). 1886 the family moved from Manchester to Hampstead Road, London, where she ran a fancy ...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous

8 memorials
James Bannister

James Bannister

For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
E. A. Padley
War dead, WW2
1 memorial