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...
London & Manchester Ass Co - Union Square
{Around the outside rim of the basin:} This garden was presented by the Lond...
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...
Alexander McQueen
Lee Alexander McQueen, 1969 - 2010, fashion designer, lived here from 2001 - ...
Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy, 1956 - 2019, novelist and chronicler of the British Caribbean ex...
Anne Frank tree - N5
This tree was cultivated from the original white horse chestnut tree that Ann...
Other Subjects
J. Rider Smith
Represented the London Congregational Union Planning Committee in 1957. From the 1934 Chronicle of the London Missionary Society: "Director of the Society, and President of the Metropolitan Auxili...
2 memorials
John Oakes
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Alexander Thorn
Member of the Chelsea Vestry Hall Building Committee in 1885. Referring to Chelsea Park British History Online has "The building leases were granted 1878-83 to Alexander Thorn, builder, of Cremorn...
1 memorial
Thomas Haynes Parker
Churchwarden in Clerkenwell in 1845. Insurance papers for 1835 list a Thomas Haynes Parker at 25 Winyatt Street, Goswell Street, "paper stainer". By 1836 he has become "gent" with another property ...
1 memorial
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
403 memorials
Foyles Literary Lunches
Created by Christina Foyle (daughter of William), the first guest of honour was Lord Justice Darling who spoke to 200 at the Holborn Restaurant. The Lunches were very successful and moved to the n...
1 memorial
London County Council
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
290 memorials
St Mary’s church, Greenwich
SE10, King William Walk, St Mary's Gate into Greenwich Park
The excellent Greenwich Phantom tells us that the footprint of the old church is shown "by a beech hedge, some of the foundation stones m...
1 subject commemorated
Poets' Corner
The popular name for the south transept of Westminster Abbey. Geoffrey Chaucer was the first person to be interred here, although it was for his position as Clerk of Works to the Palace of Westmins...
1 memorial
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