London Borough. Formed under the London Government Act of 1963 from the municipal boroughs of Bexley and Erith, Crayford Urban District and part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District.
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London Borough of Bexley
To mark the centenary of the Bexleyheath coronation memorial clock tower 1912...
The One Bell Inn Public House. Crayford Chartists held their first meeting he...
She was born as Emily Blanche Carr on 4 July 1849 at Lownes Street, London, SW1. She was the fourth daughter, and youngest of the six children of Andrew Morton Carr (1799-1852) and Emily Caroline F...
Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.
Chairman of Governors of the Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation School in 1924 and still alive and laying plaques in 1953. Nephew to William Burdett-Coutts.
Soldier and then tutor to Prince Richard who would become Richard II. Burley stayed close to Richard, arranging his marriage for him. Burley had great influence over the king, which was resented b...
Mayor of Hackney 1933-34. The picture shows him (the mayor, on the left) at the 1934 ceremony to bury a 'time capsule', a brass canister, below the foundation stone of the current Town Hall in Mare...
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middlesex. This division was a liberty, i.e. it was an autonomous area under the jurisdiction of the Constable of the Tower of...
After the outbreak of WWI, black recruits could be found in all branches of the British armed forces. They volunteered at recruitment centres, and were joined by West Indians, travelling at their o...
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbur...
Scottish knight and national hero. Born Renfrewshire. Convicted of treason Wallace was executed at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered - a very gruesome death reserved for traitors. Mel ...
The names commemorate those who are buried in the cemetery without individual headstones, so some have accompanying touching epithets whi...
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