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.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
London Borough of Haringey
Bernie Grant 1944 - 2000, trade unionist, council leader, member of parliamen...
Yes, there are two different (but correct) spellings of the name of the borou...
We've transcribed this inscription correctly and, being the pedants that we a...
David Greig, 1865 - 1952, founder of the chain of grocers and Hornsey schools...
Supported the Parliamentary cause and sat in the House of Commons 1640-52. Buried Westminster Abbey. When Charles II was restored to the throne he ordered the disinterment of the bodies of Oliver ...
Secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Hospital.
Architect, builder and surveyor. Churchwarden at St Giles Church in 1800.
Deputy Mayor of London: 2008 - 2011, Leader of Westminster City Council: 2000 - 2008, Chairman of the Local Government Association: 2007 - 2008. Chief of staff to Boris Johnson from 2009 during his...
Founder of Canterbury, New Zealand. Born Dublin. Travelled extensively in Ireland and North America and so was asked to found a Church of England colony in New Zealand. After living there for two y...
Priest. Born Rome. Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, the Pallottine Fathers. Canonized in 1963. He suggested that St Peter’s should be built but we ar...
Formerly part of Kent, it has been part of Greater London since 1963.
One of Charles Dickens characters from David Copperfield (1850).
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. In 2006 the name was changed from just 'Corporation of London' to disti...
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