Founded by Sir Sydney Waterlow.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Improved Industrial Dwellings Co Ltd
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1st Duke of Westminster, friend of the poor
Hugh Lupus, first Duke of Westminster, K.G., lessor to the Improved Industria...
Cromwell Buildings
The Prince Regent (later King George IV) had died more than twenty years befo...
Sandringham Buildings
Sandringham Buildings Erected by the Improved Industrial Dwellings Co Ltd (S...
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Dalston City Partnership
Initially we could discover little about this body but Rocker Ages solved the puzzle - they were a private, limited by guarantee company, in the regeneration business. From Lifelong Learning: "DCP ...
Bolton Gardens, 2
Bolton Gardens where Potter lived was a row of houses on the south side of Old Brompton Road, now occupied by Bousfield Primary School. The 1933 picture shows just a section of number 2, at the le...
8 Grenville Street
The Marchmont Association thoroughly research their plaques and they found some interesting information about Barrie’s home: “Barrie (1937) writes (in the third person) about his first residences ...
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Crystal Palace fatal accident
SE26, Westwood Hill, St Bartholomew's Churchyard
The board refers to "New Sydenham Church". Designed by Lewis Vulliamy, St Bartholomew's was constructed 1827-32.
7 - Wine Office Court – Dickens
EC4, Fleet Street
There are 8 Courts running off the north side of this section of Fleet Street and on the ground at the entrance to each Court is a plaque...
R.H. Tawney
Born Calcutta, India. Died in a nursing home in Fitzroy Square. Economic/social historian, Christian socialist and founding father of the welfare state.
Thomas de Quincey
Born Manchester. Author, best known for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821). Was as addicted to books as much as to drink or opium, sometimes renting an extra lodging (which he could not...
William Fisher
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.