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Matilda Beaken
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Bethnal Green WW2 disaster - monument
We have transcribed all the names and the main plaque. Scattered across the t...
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Alfred Henry Oakley
Alfred Henry Oakley was born 25 October 1892 in Hoxton, the third of the five children of Robert Oakley (b.1860) and Alice Oakley née Bates. His father was a warehouse porter. The 1901 census shows...
Sultan Ahmed, Gnr.
Imperial Camel Corps, India Contingent, Hong King & Singapore battery, R. G. A.
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Born at 24 Grosvenor Square. Promoted many reform causes, connected with factories, children, mental illness, housing. Also supported the restoration of the Holy Land to the Jews. President of the ...
Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
Salmon & Gluckstein
Tobacco retailer which become the largest tobacco sellers in the UK, with over 140 retail outlets. Samuel Gluckstein (1821-73) was born in Rheinberg, Prussia (now Germany) on 4 January 1821, the s...
Sir Ambrose Heal
Furniture designer and retailer. Born at Crouch End. Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art before joining the family firm which ran the Heal & Son department store. He designed the simple, st...
Clayhall Tea House
A popular place of refreshment in the 18th century, in what was then an out of London village. Samuel Pepys records in his diary that he visited Bow, and had eaten a memorable dish of cherries and ...
Marcus Garvey
Pan-African nationalist leader. Born Marcus Mosiah Garvey in St Ann's Bay, Jamaica. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914 to foster worldwide black unity, and moved its hea...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Jamaica, USA
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