Secretary to the Commissioners for the 1892 Westminster Public Library. Became librarian in Great Smith Street in March 1881 and went on to be employed by Westminster City Council as a branch librarian. Retired in 1904.
We have to assume that this is not the same Henry Poole that did the lovely bas relief work on the near-by wash-house.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Henry E. Poole
Westminster Public Library The united parishes of St Margaret and St John the...
Islington Librarian in 1906. We believe he also published books on librarianship.
An extension to the British Museum by the architect Sir John James Burnett.
Born York Terrace, Regent’s Park. His strange name seems to be the result of his father's near-illegitimacy and subsequent extensive litigation. Librarian, folklorist and Russian scholar. He gra...
In 1996 the BFI erected 126 plaques across Britain to commemorate the centenary of cinema. See the pdf.
Collector of English folk-songs and dances. Born Denmark Hill. Spent 1882 - 92 in Australia. Developed an interest in English folk-music in 1899 and began his prolific collection which later expand...
Person, Dance, Museums / Libraries, Music / songs, Australia
men of the Parish of Our Lady of Willesden killed in WW2
This double plaque, the foundation stone, is under the window on the right. Quite where the scroll was deposited (behind the plaque in t...
Rather than risk life and limb in trying to get to the central reservation, we have borrowed a photograph. The latin name Quercus Robur translates as 'hardy oak'. The cultivar 'Fastigiata' is diffe...
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...
Born in Upton, Essex. Died in Walmer, Kent. Pioneer in the use of antiseptics in surgery. The medical historian, Ruth Richardson, has an interesting piece in the Lancet reporting on how Agnes his w...
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