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London Borough of Lambeth
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Dave Squires
Dave Squires, 1949 - 2009, much loved street sweeper. Southbankmosaics Suppor...
Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce
Cherry Dorothy Groce, 1948 - 2011, innocently shot in this house by police wh...
Lambeth war memorial - WW1
"Lest we forget" is a quote from Kipling, often used on war memorials for WW1...
Millennium tree - SE1
London Borough of Lambeth Millennium Tree (Quercus Ilex) Evergreen Holm Oak...
Other Subjects
John Scurr
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. Labour MP for Mile End 1923-31. Born in Australia as John Rennie but was adopted by his uncle, Captain John Scurr, and brought to London...
Geoffrey Rowley Bostock
Born Stafford. A chartered accountant, in 1916 we find him appointed to wind up a number of companies who were prosecuted under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1916. Churchwarden of St ...
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
Inventor and adventurer. Born Woburn, Massachusetts. Having spied for the British in America he moved to England in 1776, was knighted by King George III, moved to Germany where he gained the titl...
Person, Politics & Administration, Science, France, Germany, USA
Will Crooks
Trade unionist and politician. Born at 2 Shirbutt Street, Poplar. He helped bring about many local improvements, and in 1891 endorsed representation by the London Trades Council to restrict immigra...
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Lord Beaverbrook
Newspaper publisher and politician. Born William Maxwell Aitken in Maple, Ontario. He came to Britain in 1910, and served as an MP 1911-16. In 1919, he took over The Daily Express, and later founde...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Canada
John Galsworthy
NW3, Admiral's Walk, Admiral's House & Grove Lodge
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, so they brought it to him at his home here.
Dame Katharine Furse
Born Katharine Symonds in Bristol. She spent most of her early life in Switzerland and Italy. She joined the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Department in 1909, and at the outbreak of WW1, she headed the f...
Fm. Trevor Paul Carvosso
Fireman killed in the Dudgeon's Wharf explosion. Andrew Behan has researched Carvosso: Fireman Trevor Paul Carvosso was born on 3 April 1946 and his birth was registered in East Ham. He was one of...
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