Mayor of Southwark 2001-2.
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Holocaust - SE1
This tree was planted in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, 1939 ...
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B. Traven
Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Mexico
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
Born Wales. His father was executed by Richard III. Buckingham was part of the court of Henry VII and Henry VIII but his Plantagenet heritage made Henry suspicious of him and so following a trial...
George Croydon Marks
Engineer and politician. Born in Eltham. He was apprenticed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. In 1882 he joined Tangye Ltd in Birmingham and became head of the lifting-machinery department and an exp...
H. H. Asquith
Born in Morley, Yorkshire. Prime Minister 1908 to 1916. 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Died Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire. The Suffragettes' enemy. Film director Anthony Asquith was his son and La...
Jawaharlal Nehru
First Prime Minister of independent India. Born Allahabad, India. Father of Mrs Indira Gandhi. Popularly known as Pandit(ji) which means "scholar".
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Henry Gage Spicer
Chairman of the paper manufacturers Spicers, Ltd, and Associated Companies. 1933 Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Owned a country estate, 'Holmwood', Sawston, Cambridge (but we can fi...
first gas-lit street in the world
The first public street lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall Mall by Frederick Winsor in 1807. In January he lit the street and in June he put on a special gas-lit exhibition here, celebrati...
Yosef Gutfreund
Wrestling coach. Born Yosef (or Yossef) Gutfreund in Romania. He was part of the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. He was awakened by Palestinian terrorists infiltrating the Olympic...
Person, Sport / Games, Tragedy, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Romania
Tufnell Park Road - Listed
N19, Tufnell Park Road, 19
9 - 21 Tufnell Park Road were listed in 1994. The listing entry says: "Detached and semi-detached houses linked to form a terrace. 1840-...
Amen Court
EC4, Warwick Lane, Amen Court
This cast of characters also appear on the nearby St Paul's Choir school plaque, erected 5 years earlier when Claughton was still only a ...
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