Lower End Kingsdown Avenue Residents' Association
Residents' Association in Purley. Their Facebook page, LeKARA, was created in 2019.
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Purley air crash
A de Havilland DH.34 G-EBBX of Imperial Airways, which had only just taken off from Croydon Airport bound for Paris, crashed at Purley in Surrey. All seven passengers and the pilot were killed. A ...
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Dr Jimmy Mallon
Economist and political activist. Born James Joseph Mallon in Chorlton, Manchester. He served an apprenticeship as a jeweller, and In 1903 joined the Independent Labour Party and the Fabian Society...
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Rose Bloom
This married lady must have been associated with Toynbee Hall in some way.
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Landsbergs boy scouts
"Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years" 1984, Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney provides: "Already in the 1890s, there had been increasing interest in what would now be called yout...
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Jeremy Lloyd
Actor and screenwriter. Born John Jeremy Lloyd in Danbury, Essex. He appeared in the American comedy series 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in', and various films and other television programmes. Along w...
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County Fire Office
An insurance organisation launched by Barber Beaumont in 1807. Beaumont was the managing director and within 20 years it was the fifth largest fire insurer in Britain. Source: Oxford Dictionary of...
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Provident Life Office
A savings bank launched by Barber Beaumont in 1806. We think this went on to become part of Friends Provident. Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Shandy Park / East London Cemetery
Shandy Park is a green space a few blocks due south of this site. It was opened in 1837 as the East London Cemetery with its own chapel, by local landowner, John Thomas Barber Beaumont. Beaumont ar...
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Beaumont's Philosophical Institution
Founded in Beaumont Square, Mile End, by Barber Beaumont. Initially called the Eastern Athenaeum, this was created for 'the mental and moral improvement' and benefit of local people. It included a ...
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