Group    From 1972 

Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association

Categories: Community / Clubs

When we first researched this area in 2008 there were three plaques erected by the LGTA; others were erected later so we had to go back.  The first three plaques all end with the text "Awards for all". This reminds us of the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland: "Everybody has won and all must have prizes". It seems a particularly perverse motto for plaques, which by their very nature are erected for the select few. However, it actually indicates that the Lottery grants scheme of that name has, at least partially, funded the plaque.

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Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association

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Alice Zimmern

Alice Zimmern, 1855 - 1939, pioneering advocate for women's education and suf...

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Anthony Green

Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association Anthony Green, R.A., artist, lived her...

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Haydn Wood

Haydn Wood, 1882 - 1959, composer, a much-loved master of British light music...

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James Hanley

James Hanley, 1897 - 1985, novelist and playwright, lived here. Lissenden Gar...

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Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw, O.B.E., 1875 - 1958, composer, quiet revolutionary of English mu...

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Tabard Inn

Tabard Inn

Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in London and to provide accomodation to pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, in particular Chaucer's pilgrims, who set off...

Building, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Literature

1 memorial
Albion Tavern

Albion Tavern

26 Russell Street (previously Great Russel Street).  Pubs History lists licencees from 1848 but it dates back to the 18th century at least.  Closed by 1922.

Building, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

1 memorial
The inhabitants of Charlton

The inhabitants of Charlton

Charlton is an area of South-East London which still retains the feel of a village. Daniel Defoe described it as: 'A village famous, or rather infamous for the yearly collected rabble of mad-people...

Group, Community / Clubs

2 memorials
Fountain Tavern

Fountain Tavern

Here the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met, using the title of the Fountain Club. Since the Kit-Cat Club, Walpole's supporters, also met here, we have to trust that the landlord arrange...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Tony O'Leary

Tony O'Leary

Resident of the Pepys Estate, active in the community.

Person, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

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English Heritage

English Heritage

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,...

Group, Architecture, History, Property

421 memorials