Person    | Male  Born 10/4/1884  Died 23/2/1936

Henry Lygon

Fourth son of 6th Earl Beauchamp. 1907-19 Conservative member of LCC for Finsbury. Chairman of Fire Brigade Committee of LCC 1909-11. Badly injured in a balloon accident while serving in WW1 but continued to be active in politics. Strangely: "1928 he became the licensee of the Hand and Shears, a public house in Smithfield, as part of his work with the Association for the Promotion of Restaurants and Public-Houses in Poor Districts."

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Henry Lygon

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Waterloo Road Fire Station

This station was opened on the 23rd day of June 1910 by the Hon. Henry Lygon,...

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W. Arscott

W. Arscott

Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Private William Arscott was born on 1 October 1880 in Hampstead, the elder son of William and Frances Arscott. His father was a house painter. The 18...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Wm. H. Pascoe

Wm. H. Pascoe

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

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
C. W. Marriott

C. W. Marriott

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Fredk. C. Hedge

Fredk. C. Hedge

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

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lance Corporal Stanley John Herbert Muzzell

Lance Corporal Stanley John Herbert Muzzell

Stanley John Herbert Muzzell was born on 19 February 1891 at 12 Manor Place, Paddington, London, the third of the nine children of Thomas William Muzzell (1859-1919) and Mary Ann Sophia Muzzell née...

Person, Armed Forces, France, South Africa

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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Edward de Vere

Edward de Vere

17th Earl of Oxford. Possibly born at Castle Hedingham, Essex. He wrote poetry  and was a court favourite. Since the 1920s, he has been among the alternative candidates for the authorship of Shakes...

Person, Poetry

2 memorials
D. Meinertzhagen

D. Meinertzhagen

Daniel Meinertzhagen VI. Head of the Frederick Huth merchant bank, as his father had been before him. Treasurer of the committee that built the extension to the German Hospital, which, given his we...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
John Barry

John Barry

Created the captions on the Hitchcock murals.  We think this means that he wrote them, rather than physically made them, and that he was chosen for his film knowledge.  But the existence of 'John B...

Person, Cinema

1 memorial
Croydon Road Recreation Ground

Croydon Road Recreation Ground

The land was purchased by the Beckenham Local Board to provide a public open space which had been lacking since the loss of the Fair Field for housing in the 1870s. The site was part of open farmla...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture, Transport

1 memorial
Ace Cafe

Ace Cafe

It originally catered for the traffic on the newly opened North Circular Road. Destroyed in a WW2 air raid, it was rebuilt in 1949 and through the 50s became a haven for the 'ton-up-boys' and then ...

Building, Food & Drink, Transport

2 memorials