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.
Vicar of Chelsea Old Church 1950-92. From 1986 was a canon of St Paul's. Andrew Behan has researched this man: The Reverend Prebendary Clarke Edward Leighton Thomson was born on 25 April 1919 in ...
Dean of St Paul’s from 1871 to 1890. Died Dover. 2019: We were contacted by Ann Hentschel who told us that church was born Lisbon, Portugal, not Newport, Wales, as we had read elsewhere. Ann has p...
In 1543, after the dissolution of the monasteries, the hermitage Chapel of St James in the Wall was granted to William Lambe. It was adjacent to his residence, beside London Wall in Monkwell Street...
Incorporated June 1896. We can't find any information about this organisation but think the NBWTA possibly mutated into the BWTA.
Died in London prisons and were buried in Quaker Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts,...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St John's in 1727 but it was still run as a single vestry. In 1855 the two parishes were reformed into the Westminster Distric...
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. Niece of her predecessor, King William IV. Her first name was Alexandrin...
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a ...
A military uprising in Spain in July 1936 was assisted by Hitler and Mussolini. The elected Spanish Republican government pleaded for help from France and Britain but, as part of the appeasement ph...
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