Group    From 1946 

Inland Waterways Association

Categories: Community / Clubs

Formed to campaign for the conservation, use, maintenance, restoration and sensitive development of British canals and rivers. One of its founders was the author Robert Aickman. The author Elizabeth Jane Howard was employed as part-time secretary to the Association, where she and Aickman met and had a affair.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Inland Waterways Association

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Robert Aickman

Robert Aickman, 1914 - 1981, author and co-founder of the Inland Waterways As...

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Prince of Wales pub, Mackenzie Road

Prince of Wales pub, Mackenzie Road

144 Mackenzie Road. This photo dates from the 1930s. Destroyed by a WW2 V2 rocket.

Building, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Tragedy

1 memorial
Dame Ann Parker Bowles, DCVO, CBE

Dame Ann Parker Bowles, DCVO, CBE

Aristocrat and Girl Guides leader. Born as Ann de Trafford on 14 July 1918, she was the eldest of the four children of Sir Humphrey Edmund de Trafford, 4th Baronet, MC, JP, DL (1891-1971) and the ...

Person, Community / Clubs, Friend / family

1 memorial
Debbie Bunting

Debbie Bunting

2018: Our colleague Andrew Behan provides: Deborah R. Friedlander, also spelt Freedlander was born on 13 August 1920, the daughter of Alfred Freedlander and Ethel Eleanor Freedlander née Stammers. ...

Person, Art, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Queen Elizabeth College Almshouses

Queen Elizabeth College Almshouses

Founded by William Lambard to house twenty local, elderly, poor people and entrusted to be run by the Drapers' Company. The original buildings were demolished in 1818, and their replacements were e...

Building, Community / Clubs, Philanthropy

2 memorials

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S. J. Butler

S. J. Butler

Limehouse man who died in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

Prominent botanist and mycologist (fungi). Leader of the first women's army corps. Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE   During WW1 she served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and...

Person, Armed Forces, Gender Issues, Science

1 memorial
R. Fus.(C. of L. Regt) 2nd Batn. - regular

R. Fus.(C. of L. Regt) 2nd Batn. - regular

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) 2nd Batn. - regular

Group

1 memorial
W. W. Short

W. W. Short

The Whittington Park memorial gives "City of Lon." beside this name.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial