Claimed to be the first public building in South Norwood. When it opened there was little else here except for brickworks and farmland.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Jolly Sailor Inn
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Jolly Sailor Inn
Site of the Jolly Sailor Inn, South Norwood's first public building, 1810. Pe...
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Giles Vernon Hart
Telecommunications engineer and trades union activist. Born in Khartoum, Sudan. While working as an executive officer at Trinity House lighthouse authority, he set up a union branch. In the 1980s, ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Poland, Sudan
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Stoke Newington Literary Festival
From their website in 2022: "Since 2010, we’ve been celebrating the area’s radical and literary history with a festival that’s become one of the most eclectic, diverse and, frankly, FUN in the lite...
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Circus Friends Association
Founded, as the Circus Fans' Association, in 1934 at Olympia, with the 'involvement and encouragement of Bertram Mills' Circus, to 'champion the cause of the circus in England, to right injustice, ...
1 memorial
Paddington Waterways and Maida Vale Society
Conservation Society. Founded by Colonel Peter Flower and Lord Norwich.It has successfully opposed several unsympathetic building schemes in the area.
1 memorial
Downs Hotel
The Pickwick Bicycle Club was founded here on 22 June 1870. At that first meeting, it was decided that the Downs Hotel should be the general rendezvous for bi-weekly excursions on Wednesdays and Sa...
1 memorial
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