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Heroic Self Sacrifice Memorial Committee

Group

Created to oversee the completion of the 'Wall of Heroes' in Postman's Park, members included the vicar and churchwardens of St Botolph's Aldersgate and, we assume, G. F. Watts and Mary Watts at some time. Originally named the Humble Heroes Memorial Committee but renamed at Watts' insistence to remove any class overtones.Minutes Books are held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

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Heroic Self Sacrifice Memorial Committee

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PP - 2E - Ricketts

PC Harold Frank Ricketts, Metropolitan Police, drowned at Teignmouth whilst t...

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PP - 2F - Greenoff

PC Edward George Brown Greenoff, Metropolitan Police. Many lives were saved b...

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PP - 2G - Cook

“High tension” is the same as “high voltage” - dangerously high electrical en...

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PP - 2H - Pumping Works

This plaque was originally erected in 1902 at 3G but Watts incorrectly gave t...

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PP - 3G - Maconoghu

This plaque was created specifically to fill the gap left by the corrected Pu...

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Elinor Quick

Elinor Quick

One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.

Person, History

1 memorial
R.M. Robbins

R.M. Robbins

Author of "The History of London Transport" published in 4 vols 1974- 1976

Person, History

1 memorial
Sir Proby Cautley

Sir Proby Cautley

Civil engineer and palaeontologist. FRS.  Born Suffolk.  Proby was his mother's maiden name.  1819 went to India as a commissioned second lieutenant.  Apart from a few years his work there was main...

Person, Engineering, History, India

1 memorial
Edward Ironside

Edward Ironside

Historian of Twickenham.

Person, History

1 memorial

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193 Fleet Street - 3 - Wedgwood

193 Fleet Street - 3 - Wedgwood

EC4, Fleet Street, 193

Building erected in 1883 by George Attenborough for his jewellery and pawn-broking business, Attenborough and Sons. Architects: Archer an...

1 subject commemorated
Dr. Grantly Dick-Read

Dr. Grantly Dick-Read

He was born as Grantly Dick Read (with no hyphen) on 26 January 1890, the sixth of the seven children of Robert John Samuel Read (1851-1920) and Frances Maria Read née Sayer (1855-1942) in Beccles,...

Person, Medicine, South Africa

1 memorial
All Saints Cemetery

All Saints Cemetery

Now known as Nunhead cemetery, it was one of the so-called 'magnificent seven' cemeteries, opened on the outskirts of London in the nineteenth century, to alleviate the overcrowding in parish buria...

Place, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Lydia Becker

Lydia Becker

President of NUWSS prior to Millicent Fawcett and campaigned for voting rights of unmarried women and widows. Also an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. Best remembered for ...

Person, Gender Issues, Journalism / Publishing, Science

1 memorial
Hackney parish watch house

Hackney parish watch house

A watch house was an early form of police station and prison. Criminals were held here temporarily.

Place, Law

1 memorial