Place    From 1953  To 2007

Laurence Corner Army Surplus

Categories: Armed Forces, Commerce

Closed when the owner, Victor Jamilly, died January 2007, aged 79. The staff moved on and opened Squadron HQ in 121 Kentish Town Road.  Some sources give the opening date as 1947, but possibly that was when the business started, perhaps at market stalls or another shop. An article from the Independent in 1998 gives a feel of what the shop was like then.

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Laurence Corner Army Surplus

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Laurence Corner Army Surplus

Laurence Corner On this site was the famous chic Army Surplus store, which sa...

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H. Woods, Snr.

H. Woods, Snr.

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Corporal Alfred Lee Hale

Corporal Alfred Lee Hale

Alfred Lee Hale was born on the 13 January 1883 in St Pancras, Middlesex (now Greater London), a son of Joseph Hale (1844-1898) and Ellen Louisa Hale née Gaymer (1849-1899). His birth was registere...

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Home Guard (County of London)

Home Guard (County of London)

British civilian voluntary militia in WW2. It was formed of men who were ineligible for active war service. This included those who were too young or old to be conscripted, plus men in 'reserved oc...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
W. Willy

W. Willy

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Captain Edward Alfred Shaw

Captain Edward Alfred Shaw

Edward Alfred Shaw was born on 16 May 1892 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, the eldest of the ten children of the Reverend Edward Domett Shaw (1860-1937) and Agnes Shaw née Gilbey (1867-1944)....

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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Fred Kormis sculpture

Fred Kormis sculpture

NW6, Queen's Park

Donated to Queen’s Park by Reg Freeson.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Terence MacSwiney

Terence MacSwiney

Playwright, author and politician. Born Terence James MacSwiney in Cork. Elected as MP for Mid Cork in 1918, and as Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920. On 12th August 1920, he was arrested by the British f...

Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Ireland

1 memorial
Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Russian-American poet and essayist. US Nobel Prize Laureate. Born Leningrad. Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, he settled in the USA, aided by W. H. Auden and others. There he taught and was ap...

Person, Poetry, Russia, USA

1 memorial
Last V2 rocket in Kingston upon Thames

Last V2 rocket in Kingston upon Thames

The rocket landed at 2.35 p.m. Eight people were killed, 117 injured and many houses destroyed or damaged.

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial