From their website: "The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation is a non-profit, volunteer organization. The purpose of the Society is to identify and recognize sites of American Jewish Historical interest. The Society sponsors and promotes programs of local and national historic interest. Cooperating with local Historical Societies, Communities, Churches and Synagogues, the Society encourages dialogue and interactive recognition of the commonality of the American Experience."
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Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
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Leopold Marks
Jewish cryptographer, Leopold (Leo) Samuel Marks, MBE, lived in flat 410 Park...
Operation Mincemeat
The Biblical quotation draws attention to the secrecy which was essential to ...
Rathbone Street WW2 fire station - Harry Errington
On the night of 17th September 1940 during The Blitz, a London Auxiliary Fire...
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Doctor George Scott Williamson
Medical practitioner and biologist. Born in Ladybank, Fife. He worked on thyroid research at the Royal Free Hospital, with Innes Pearse who he later married. Together they developed the 'Peckham Ex...
1 memorial
3 memorials
Red Cross Garden
Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two rows of cottages and a community hall, designed by Elijah Hoole. It was created to provide 'An open air sitting room for ...
3 memorials
Henry Williamson Society
The Henry Williamson Society possesses a small archive, consisting chiefly of collections of letters from Henry Williamson that have been donated to it over a number of years.
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Automobile Association
The Automobile Association, originally set up to help motorists avoid police speed traps, opened its first office in Fleet Street in 1905.
1 memorial
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Born 7 Chester Street, Chelsea. Poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He invented the poetic form called ‘roundel’. Was a good friend of Dante Rossetti, who called him his ’little Northumbrian ...
4 memorials
David Cassidy - Phoenix Theatre
W1, Stacey Street, Phoenix Theatre
We thank our colleague, Alan Patient, for the photos of the plaque. April 2020: Immediately after publishing this we were contacted by o...
1 subject commemorated
Dudley Gordon Mills
Chairman Streets Committee, City of London, 1959 and 1963. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Dudley Gordon Mills was born on 5 February 1908 in Leyton, Essex, the second of the three sons of W...
2 memorials
Marylebone Station
A Central London railway terminus and London Underground complex, designed by Henry William Braddock. Originally it was the London terminus of the former Great Central Railway, and is now the Londo...
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Stephanie Turner
Stephanie was 29-years old and newly engaged. She was a physiotherapist who worked for the NHS, a tri-athlete, who ran marathons and climbed mountains. Her friends remember her as someone that lit ...
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