One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
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Jeanne Southwell
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Princess Royal Nurses Home
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer...
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St Nicholas Nursery
In association with the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.
Dr Barnardo
Missionary and social worker with the British poor, especially children. Born Thomas John Barnardo in Dublin with a Prussian father. "Brought to Christ" in 1862. Arrived at 30 Coburn Street in 1866...
Person, Children, Jack the Ripper suspects, Social Welfare, Ireland
Charles Hamilton (Frank Richards)
Author for children. Born Oak Street, Ealing, where the plaque now is. Specialised in writing long series of stories generally using a different pen-name for each. Most famously, as Charles Hamil...
Mary Styles
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
Alfred Joseph Walter Sims
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 6. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
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Lord Teignmouth, John Shore
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born St James Street, Piccadilly but brought up in Romford. 1769 went to work in Bengal where he was one of the first to learn a number of the local languages. Like many...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Indian Sub-continent
J. C. Harland
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Dulwich Picture Gallery
The oldest public art gallery in England, designed by Sir John Soane. Its acquisitions over the years have resulted in it becoming one of the country's finest collections of old masters, especially...
Mercantile Marine Memorial - WW1
EC3, Trinity Square Gardens
George V should have been on duty to unveil this but he was seriously ill so Queen Mary took over, the first time she had played such a r...
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