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History of Wapping Trust

Categories: Community / Clubs, History

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Started in the early 1970s as Wapping Parents Action Group. Transformed into a history group in the early 1980s. More info at What's in Wapping.

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History of Wapping Trust

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Captain Bligh - Wapping

William Bligh R.N., F.R.S., who transplanted breadfruit from Tahiti to the We...

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Poplar & Stepney Rifles

Poplar & Stepney Rifles Site of the Drill Hall (1860 - 1907) of 26th Midd...

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Percy Baden Powell Huxford

Percy Baden Powell Huxford

Percy Baden Powell Huxford is the 2nd from the right of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 9 May 1900, in Walworth, one of at least ten children of Henry W...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials
Clary Salandy

Clary Salandy

Costume designer. Grew up in Trinidad in the ‘70s and moved to London aged 15 to study theatre design at college. In the mid ‘80s was selected to help with costumes for the Notting Hill Carnival Co...

Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Shadow Hi Fi

Shadow Hi Fi

Provided music at the Notting Hill Carnival. Run by Trevor Charles who was an early member of London Brotherhood of Soca Sounds. Source: Caribbean Music Association. It is named towards the botto...

Group, Community / Clubs, Music / songs

1 memorial
Belsize Residents’ Association

Belsize Residents’ Association

From their website: "The Belsize Residents Association grew out of a campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s to stop the area being split in two by a motorway."  The group "seek to preserve the ...

Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture, History

1 memorial