Children's author. Born Surrey as James Anthony Bowen. His mother moved him as a child to Australia. Aged 17 he returned to the UK but he became homeless, began begging and started using heroin. His meeting Bob the Street Cat and how they helped each other is described on the page for the memorial. Author of 9 (as at 2022) books about Bob.
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James Bowen
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Street Cat Bob
{On the back of the bench:} He is my companion, my best friend, my teacher an...
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Voltaire Foundation
The Voltaire Foundation is a research department in the University of Oxford, publishing in the area of the Eighteenth century, especially the French Enlightenment.
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Edith Nesbit
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2 memorials
James Elroy Flecker
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1 memorial
P. L. Travers
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1 memorial
Fanny Kemble
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1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
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Amy Garvey
W10, Bassett Road, 1
Amy lived here for 26 years. Unveiled by Jamaica's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Burchell Whiteman.
2 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
British armed forces in Korean War
81,084 British servicemen served in the theatre of operations. 1,106 were killed in action. Thousands were wounded and 1,060 suffered as prisoners of war. At its source, the National Army Museum, ...
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Cholera - Hampstead - 1849
NW3, New End, Heathside Preparatory School
Beneath the two windows to the left of the plaque there is some red granite, inscribed "1859", which looks like the remains of a drinking...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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