Group    From 1965 

London Borough of Haringey

Created in 1965 by the amalgamation of three former boroughs: Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham.

2007 - 10, Haringey Council ran its own historic plaques scheme to commemorate notable or famous local former residents.

Spelling: on creation this council chose the spelling Haringey, but it is not universally adopted by any means, and in the records Harringay is frequently used. We are as confused as anyone.

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London Borough of Haringey

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Bernie Grant

Bernie Grant 1944 - 2000, trade unionist, council leader, member of parliamen...

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Charlotte Riddell

Unveiled on International Women's Day.

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Conscientious Objectors WW1 - Haringey

Yes, there are two different (but correct) spellings of the name of the borou...

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Councillor's Walk

We've transcribed this inscription correctly and, being the pedants that we a...

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David Greig - N8

David Greig, 1865 - 1952, founder of the chain of grocers and Hornsey schools...

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Other Subjects

Battle of Lewisham

Battle of Lewisham

In the mid 1970s, New Cross and surrounding areas became the focus of racist activity by neo-Nazis and the National Front (NF). This culminated in an attempted march by 500 members of the NF. Vario...

Event, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

2 memorials
Peter Mandelson

Peter Mandelson

Labour politician.  Born Hampstead Garden Suburb grandson of Herbert Morrison.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Navy Office, Seething Lane

Navy Office, Seething Lane

Built on the site of Walsingham's mansion, this was the Navy Office in which Samuel Pepys lived and worked.  Survived the Great Fire partly due to Pepys' efforts.  Destroyed by another fire in 1673...

Building, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Sir Edmund Douce
1 memorial
Andrew Johnston

Andrew Johnston

Politician. His Wikipedia page shows that he was elected as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament for the southern division of Essex in 1868, but lost the seat at the 1874 election. He was appointed...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Ziano Vespi
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Nessie Stewart-Brown

Nessie Stewart-Brown

Suffragist and Liberal Party politician. Co-founder of Liverpool Women’s Suffrage Society, and led Women’s Liberal Federation branches in Liverpool. Born as Nessie Muspratt near Liverpool. 1888 Mar...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Rifleman John Minell Elliott

Rifleman John Minell Elliott

John Minell Elliott was born in 1878, the fourth of the seven children of James Elliott (1835-1895) and Annie Mary Elliott née Minell (b.1852). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1878 i...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

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...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous

11 memorials
St Benet Fink

St Benet Fink

Church destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, rebuilt by Wren and demolished 1844.

Building, Religion

1 memorial