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Islington Council

The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database has a list of memorials in Islington. There are also lists of Conflict / Event / Incident, each with an associated list of those killed.

 

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Islington Council

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London & Manchester Ass Co - Arlington Square

Arlington Square and Union Square hold two identical octagonal bird baths. T...

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London & Manchester Ass Co - Union Square

{Around the outside rim of the basin:} This garden was presented by the Lond...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Islington Council

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African National Congress

London Borough of Islington London headquarters of the African National Cong...

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Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen, 1969 - 2010, fashion designer, lived here from 2001 - ...

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Anne Frank tree - N5

This tree was cultivated from the original white horse chestnut tree that Ann...

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Archway Toll Gate

The plaque is under the ground floor window.

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Battishill Gardens

This stone frieze (13 metres long, 2 metres high) was originally unveiled on ...

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Other Subjects

Entente Cordiale

Entente Cordiale

Up until the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain and France had been at war on and off for centuries. The Entente Cordiale ('cordial argreement' doesn't really do it justice) settled a numbe...

Event, Peace, Politics & Administration, France

2 memorials
Lewisham Borough Council

Lewisham Borough Council

The Borough of Lewisham was formed as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Deptford and Lewisham.

Group, Politics & Administration

27 memorials
Match tax abandoned

Match tax abandoned

I871 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, proposed a tax on matches.  The Bryant and May workers, mainly girls, realised this threatened their jobs and marched in protest on the House of C...

Event, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Charles W. Bowerman

Charles W. Bowerman

Veteran of the printing trade union movement. Delegate to the founding conference of the Labour party in 1900 and Labour MP for Deptford for almost 30 years. President of the Trades Union Congress.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial