Group    From 1900  To 1965

Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea

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It was amalgamated under the London Government Act of 1963, with the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea

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Grove Buildings

Grove Buildings Erected in 1909 by the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea

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Roper's Garden

Parachute mines were used in the early 40s; the end of the war was characteri...

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Frank Adamson

Frank Adamson

Member of the Ealing District Council in 1899. Frank Adamson was born on 25 May 1832 in Chiswick, Middlesex (now Greater London), a son of Thomas Henry Adamson (1799-1871) and Ann Adamson née Unde...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Henry Buxton Forman

Henry Buxton Forman

Born Camden Place, Southampton Street, Camberwell. Bibliographer and forger. An authority on the lives and works of Shelley and Keats. He also had a lifelong career in the Post Office and was award...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Barry Jackson

Barry Jackson

President of The Royal College of Surgeons of England in October 2000.

Person, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Rev. A Walbaum

Rev. A Walbaum

Founded and then served for 46 years as Honorary Secretary and Chaplain of the German Hospital and was described in "Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914" as the "soul of the h...

Person, Politics & Administration, Religion

1 memorial

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Waltham Forest Town Hall war memorial

Waltham Forest Town Hall war memorial

E17, Forest Road

The expression "our glorious dead" suggests that this memorial was raised to the dead in the armed forces only and not to any civilian dead.

War dead | Other war
4 subjects commemorated
Victoria Coach Station

Victoria Coach Station

Art Deco style purpose-built coach station, the largest in Britain.  Opened  by London Coastal Coaches, an association of coach operators. Architects were Wallis, Gilbert and Partners. Ian Visits g...

Building, Transport

1 memorial
John Rae

John Rae

Arctic explorer. Born at the Hall of Clestrain, near Stromness, Orkney Islands. He studied medicine and became doctor to the Hudson Bay Company. From 1846 to 1848 he undertook several expeditions t...

Person, Exploring, Medicine, Arctic & Antarctic, Canada, Scotland, USA

1 memorial
Lord Raglan

Lord Raglan

FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan. Commander in the Crimean War 1853 - 56. It is generally thought to have been his overall incompetence that led to the disaster of the Charge of the Light Brigade...

Person, Armed Forces, Crimea

3 memorials
Corporation of the City of London

Corporation of the City of London

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...

Group, Commerce, Politics & Administration

185 memorials