This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
L. J. Wood
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J. Lyons war memorial - WW2
A portrait photo has been attached to the list of names close to Kingsley so ...
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General John Burgoyne
Army officer, politician and playwright. Born at Park Prospect, Westminster. He entered the army in 1740 and in the Seven Years War he captured Valencia de Alcantara. During the Saratoga Campaign i...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Theatre, Canada, Ireland, Spain, USA
Lance Corporal Percy John Owlett
Percy John Owlett was born on 10 June 1885 in Battersea, Surrey (now Greater London) the fifth of the six children of Benjamin James Owlett (1852-1918) and Mary Ann Owlett (c.1845-1908). His birth ...
Zeppelin airships
Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900. London was first targeted with airships in May 1915 and initially found defence very difficult. Searchlights and incendiary ammunition helped to de...
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Thomas Woodward & Sons
Brewers. They took over the Clapham Brewery, changing its name to ‘The Plough’ which was the same as the brewery they had run in Kennington. The railings at the front of the building bear the initi...
Dame Lucie Rie
Potter. Née Gompertz in Vienna into a rich, intellectual family. 1938 she and her husband fled Nazism intending to go to the USA but Lucie, already more interested in her work than her husband, dec...
Palmer Tyre Company
From Car History: In June 1892 John F. Palmer (American) obtained two US patents for a “thread-fabric” bicycle pneumatic tire. Shortly afterwards he moved to England; registering the Palmer Tire Co...
Art Fund
"Helping museums and galleries buy art for everyone to enjoy". Previously known as the National Art Collections Fund.
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