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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.

 

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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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Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy, 1956 - 2019, novelist and chronicler of the British Caribbean ex...

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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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Other Subjects

David Gammans

David Gammans

Politician. Born Leonard David Gammans. He entered parliament and served as Assistant Postmaster-General in the 1951 - 55 government. In 1952 there was 'public outrage' that the Post Office cats ha...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
C. W. Hall

C. W. Hall

Master of the Innholders' Company in 1950.

Person, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Beatrice Webb

Beatrice Webb

Social scientist, economist and political reformer. Born as Beatrice Potter in Gloucestershire. Charles Booth was her cousin. Married Sidney Webb in 1892 - the picture source quotes her very uncomp...

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke

Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke

Politician.  Born Nottinghamshire.  An albino, he suffered poor and deteriorating eyesight so emigrated to Australia  in 1841 in the hope of making a quick fortune before going blind.  There he est...

Person, Politics & Administration, Australia

1 memorial
Alderman William Ivey

Alderman William Ivey

Chair of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee in 1905. London Wikia records a Willaim Ivey who we think in our 'Alderman  Ivey': Mayor of the Municipal Borough of West Ham 1897-8, and memb...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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William Friese-Greene

William Friese-Greene

Photographer, inventor and pioneer of cinematography. Born Bristol as William Edward Green. Married the Swiss Helena Friese in 1874 and added her name to his. (It's not clear where the extra "e" ca...

Person, Cinema

3 memorials
Canon John Longstaff

Canon John Longstaff

Rector of St Mary’s Church Cadogan Street, 1965 - 1983. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out this research: John Leonard Longstaff was born on 7 February 1913 in Harrow, Middlesex, the eldest of th...

Person, Religion

1 memorial
London Borough of Haringey

London Borough of Haringey

Created in 1965 by the amalgamation of three former boroughs: Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham. 2007 - 10, Haringey Council ran its own historic plaques scheme to commemorate notable or famous lo...

Group, Politics & Administration

18 memorials