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Lewisham Borough Council

The Borough of Lewisham was formed as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Deptford and Lewisham.

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Lewisham Borough Council

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Battle of Lewisham - Plaque

Remembering the Battle of Lewisham. Thousands united here against racism and ...

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David Jones

David Jones CH, 1895 - 1974, artist, soldier, poet, lived at this address 189...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer - SE23

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 - 1945, theologian and pastor, lived here, 1933 - 1...

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Edith Nesbit

Plaque unveiled by Fern Ravandi, her great-granddaughter.

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Edward Owen Greening

Edward Owen Greening, 1836 - 1923, co-operator and social reformer, lived in ...

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Other Subjects

Edward Gale

Edward Gale

Co-church warden of St Sepulchre Middlesex in 1868.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Councillor John Hall

Councillor John Hall

Vice Chairman Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Councillor George Hickling

Councillor George Hickling

Mayor of St Pancras 1905 - 6. Kentish Towner refers to "a coal merchants George Hickling & Co, then to be found on the corner of Regis Rd." in the late 1800s. Seems likely to be the same man.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Alderman William Ivey

Alderman William Ivey

Chair of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee in 1905. London Wikia records a Willaim Ivey who we think in our 'Alderman  Ivey': Mayor of the Municipal Borough of West Ham 1897-8, and memb...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
William Burdett-Coutts

William Burdett-Coutts

Born of British stock in America as William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett. On his father's death the family moved to England in 1852. In 'The Story of Holly Lodge' by Margaret Downing, March 2009, we le...

Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, USA

1 memorial

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Edward de Vere

Edward de Vere

17th Earl of Oxford. Possibly born at Castle Hedingham, Essex. He wrote poetry  and was a court favourite. Since the 1920s, he has been among the alternative candidates for the authorship of Shakes...

Person, Poetry

2 memorials
Bell Moor house, Hampstead

Bell Moor house, Hampstead

On this site four cottages were built in 1810-20: Albion House, Bell-Moor, Hurst Lodge and Harrow Cottage. In 1820 Sir John Jackson, director of the East India Co., died in Bell-moor. In 1875-80 Th...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Buckingham House, College Hill

Buckingham House, College Hill

Built, possibly, in 1672 and still there in 1720 for John Strype to write: “.. on the East side of Colledge Hill is St. Michaels Royal Church, and almost over against the said Church, is Buckingham...

Building, Property

1 memorial
John Ladley

John Ladley

Co-overseer of the Westminster Union workhouse in 1826. At The Book of the Bastiles we find in 1838 a Mr. Ladley as an overseer at Hanwell workhouse. Could be our Ladley.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
King Leopold II of the Belgians

King Leopold II of the Belgians

Son of King Leopold I. King of the Belgians 1865 -1909. Leopold's cruel exploitation of the Congo was carried out in his name and under his instruction. The Queen Mary College students, succinctly,...

Person, Royalty, Belgium

1 memorial