Group    From 1900  To 1965

Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras

St Pancras was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in London. It was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, governed by an administrative vestry. The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and became part of the County of London in 1889. The parish of St Pancras became a metropolitan borough in 1900, following the London Government Act 1899, with the parish vestry replaced by a borough council. In 1936 the corporation received an official grant of arms from the College of Arms. The figure of St Pancras is the crest, on top of the helm. The shield featured elements from the arms of historical landowners of the borough. The scallop shells were taken from the arms of the Russell family, Dukes of Bedford. The elephant heads were from the arms of the Marquess Camden. The roses and crossed swords represented the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral. These arms can still be seen over the entrance of Camden Town Hall. In 1965 the borough was abolished and became part of the London Borough of Camden. Charges from these 1936 arms were used, together with charges from the coats of arms of Hampstead and of Holborn, when the new armorial bearings for the London Borough of Camden were designed in 1965.

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Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras

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Dennis Geffen

The Geffen Public Health Annexe. Dennis Geffen O.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., Metropo...

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Duke of Edinburgh visit

Our researches show that when a Mrs I.M.C. Pigg stood for election as a Labou...

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Highgate Branch Library - outside

St Pancras Borough Council This stone was laid on Thursday the 14th. June 19...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - N6

In 1816 to help cure his laudanum addiction Coleridge moved in with his docto...

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St Pancras Way bridge - foundation stone

This, the foundation stone for the bridge, was laid in March 1897 and less th...

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Other Subjects

P. R. Baker

P. R. Baker

Councillor in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Geoffrey Rowley Bostock

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 ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Herbert Morrison

Herbert Morrison

Labour politician. Born at 240 Ferndale Road, Brixton (from Oxford Dictionary of Biography; Wikipedia differs). Leader of the London County Council, 1934–1940. As Minister of Supply briefly in 1940...

Person, Politics & Administration

4 memorials
Councillor Saunders Jacobs

Councillor Saunders Jacobs

Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Oliver Jones

Oliver Jones

Chair of Lady Workers' Homes Ltd in 1936. A founding member of the Holly Lodge Estate Committee, a plot holder and a Trustee.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Highgate Cemetery - Fire - L01 - Fisher

Highgate Cemetery - Fire - L01 - Fisher

N6, Swain's Lane, Highgate Cemetery

The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...

1 subject commemorated
Karl Marx grave

Karl Marx grave

N6, Swain's Lane, Highgate Cemetery - East

Bronze head on granite plinth with gold leaf inscriptions.

5 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Godfrey Fitz

Godfrey Fitz

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Private H. E. Howard
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasia...

Person, Science, Seriously Famous

1 memorial