Group    From 1855  To 1889

Metropolitan Board of Works

Responsible for managing London's infrastructure, such as roads, sewage, etc. Replaced by the London County Council.

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Metropolitan Board of Works

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Great Eastern Street fountain

Pink and grey polished granite, sandstone capital and a ball finial in the fo...

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Northern Outfall Sewer - Dace Road

Northern Outfall Sewer, part of London's main drainage system, constructed mi...

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Northern Outfall Sewer - River Lea

Metropolitan Board of Works Northern Outfall Sewer Constructed 1862 - 63 John...

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Putney New Bridge

So the churchyard must have occupied the ground between the church and the ri...

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Horst Dohm

Horst Dohm

Politician. District mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf from 1981 to 1996.

Person, Politics & Administration, Germany

1 memorial
John Thomas Bedford

John Thomas Bedford

Chairman of Committee for letting the City lands of the Corporation of London when the monument to Temple Bar was erected in 1880.  Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894 and a Deputy...

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Second Congress of the Communist League

Second Congress of the Communist League

At this meeting Karl Marx (attending as delegate of the Brussels Circle) and Frederick Engels (representing the Paris communities) were commissioned to write an action programme for the Communist L...

Group, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Urban Hall

Urban Hall

Prime Warden of the Fishmonger Company in 1716, 1717.  Lived in  Broad Street.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Petronella Cordelia Paton Walsh

Petronella Cordelia Paton Walsh

Chairman of Westminster's Housing Committee: 1950-1. 1964 the Conservative Miss P. C. Paton Walsh was elected onto the newly formed Westminster City Council Source: Wikipedia. Petronella Cordeli...

Person, Politics & Administration, Netherlands

1 memorial

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G .J. Pledger
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Raleigh Memorial Chapel

Raleigh Memorial Chapel

N16, Albion Grove, Trinitarian Spiritual Baptist Church

Raleigh had died in the April preceding the laying of this stone.

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Tony Hancock

Tony Hancock

Comedy actor.  Otherwise known as Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock, of 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam.  Born in Birmingham as Anthony John Hancock. He was a major figure in British television and...

Person, Humour, TV & Radio, Australia

6 memorials
William Edward Trent

William Edward Trent

Architect. Articled to Henry Poston. Later he specialised in cinema design.

Person, Architecture, Scotland

1 memorial
John Maxwell Edmonds

John Maxwell Edmonds

Poet and classical scholar.  Born Gloucestershire.  Died Cambridge.  In 1918-9 he published a few epitaphs for use on graves and memorials, including: When you go home, tell them of us and say, Fo...

Person, Poetry

9 memorials