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Matthew Bell

Categories: History, Medicine

Psychoanalyst who works near West Smithfield and is interested in local history.  He felt passionately that there should be a memorial where the denouement of the 1381 revolt took place and where Tyler fell. Up to this point there had been none.  It took him about a year of bureaucratic to-ing and fro-ing to get the go ahead from The City, St Bart's and English Heritage.   He commissioned Emily Hoffnung to design and carve the Great Rising memorial. And went on to arrange for the Rosa Luxemburg plaque.

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Matthew Bell

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Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg, 1871 - 1919. On this site in 1907, revolutionary socialist Ro...

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The Great Rising / Peasants' Revolt

Matthew Bell realised that The Great Rising lacked a proper memorial and that...

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Other Subjects

Leonard Huxley

Leonard Huxley

Writer. His works include biographies of his father Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Darwin. Father of Aldous and Julian Huxley, the unidentified child in the photograph is presumably one of his sons.

Person, History, Literature

1 memorial
Acton History Group
3 memorials
Comic Heritage

Comic Heritage

Merged with the Heritage Foundation.

Group, Cinema, History, Humour, Theatre, TV & Radio

29 memorials
R.H. Tawney

R.H. Tawney

Born Calcutta, India. Died in a nursing home in Fitzroy Square. Economic/social historian, Christian socialist and founding father of the welfare state.

Person, Economist, History, India

2 memorials
St John's Wood Heritage

St John's Wood Heritage

We can find no information but assume this is/was a group created to protect the heritage of St John's Wood.

Group, Community / Clubs, History

1 memorial

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St Dunstans gates - 1999

St Dunstans gates - 1999

E1, Stepney High Street

This small plaque is on the inner gate pier to the right of our photo. We like the way they have copied the idea and the style of the 18...

1 subject commemorated, 6 creators
Hampstead Road Bridge over Grand Union Canal

Hampstead Road Bridge over Grand Union Canal

The Listing for the current bridge tells us it is a "Public road bridge over the Grand Union Canal and towpaths. 1876, replacing an earlier inadequate brick bridge of c1815. Provided by the St Panc...

Building, Transport

1 memorial
Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson

Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson

Born Cheltenham. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Cheltenham honours Wilson with a statue on the Promenade and an exhibition in the town museum.

Person, Exploring, Medicine, Arctic & Antarctic

2 memorials
Bernard Joseph Brown, CBE, JP

Bernard Joseph Brown, CBE, JP

Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public.  Mayor of Hillingdon 1969-1970. Bernard Joseph Brown was born on 27 February 1916, his birth being regis...

Person, Armed Forces, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Maurice Nasmith Perrin
War dead, WW1
1 memorial