Our photo of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle officiating at the church's opening comes from a previous incarnation (appropriate expression?) of the Kingston Spiritualist Church website. Now, 2020, there is a good history page but without the photo.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Kingston Spiritualist Church
This stone was laid by Miss A. Welbelove, Mr J. Welbelove, April 23rd 1927.
This stone was laid by Mr & Mrs J. W. Humphries President & Secretary.
We've heard it said that no one ever puts up a memorial to a committee. Perha...
This is the first reference to the 'angel world' that we've recorded.
The picture source provides the following information: Built in 1874 as a chapel of ease to St Peter, Eaton Square. The church was destroyed in WW2 and the remains pulled down a few years later. Th...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Queen Mary I (reigned 1553-8) earned the nickname 'Bloody Mary' for the persecution and execution of Protestants and other non-Catholics during her reign. Wikipedia lists abut 40 in an 'incomplete...
Rector of St Dunstans Stepney, 1999. Enthroned as the Bishop of Southwark in 2011.
Nonconformists burial ground. Enclosed with a brick wall by the City of London in 1665; gates added 1666. Closed in 1852 by which time it held more than 120,000 bodies. In 1865, to preserve the ...
Ceramic manufacturing company. Began with a factory at Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth. Initially a partnership of John Doulton, Martha Jones, and John Watts, Jones left in 1820 leaving the company name as ...
From AIM25:"The Western Dispensary was founded in Charles Street, Westminster, in 1789, 'for gratuitously administering advice, medicines and attendance to the poor inhabitants of the City of Westm...
The Queen's college site is a lively site and provides some history. Catherine Mansfield was a student at Queen's College. 'My college life, which is such a vivid and detailed memory in one way, ...
A Grade II* listed building, designed in 1891 by E. W. Mountford (1855 - 1908) opened in 1893 as Battersea Town Hall. Sculptural work by Horace and Paul Montford. In 1965 Battersea and Wandsworth a...
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