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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H. N. B. Spink

H. N. B. Spink

A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Library. The plaque gives him "M.L.S.B." after his name but we don't recognise the qualification.

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Eleanor Rathbone

Eleanor Rathbone

Politician and social reformer. Born Eleanor Florence Rathbone at 14 Prince's Gardens, according to the ODNB, our trusted source; others say Liverpool. She made an extensive study of the position o...

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Felix Slade

Felix Slade

Collector of glass, books and engravings funded from the wealth he inherited from his father. Member of the Society of Antiquaries, he endowed 3 Slade Professorships of Fine Art at universities, an...

Person, Art, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Polydore de Keyser

Sir Polydore de Keyser

Born Belgium. The family moved to London in 1842 and his father established De Keyser's Royal Hotel on the site of what is now Unilever House. The son joined the business and the hotel became the l...

Person, Commerce, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Belgium

1 memorial
Councillor Ian Wilder

Councillor Ian Wilder

Councillor for the West End Ward from 2002 to 2009.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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6 Burlington Gardens - Milton

6 Burlington Gardens - Milton

W1, Burlington Gardens, 6

There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
John Bright

John Bright

Politician.  Worked closely with Richard Cobden in the campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws.  As a Quaker he was opposed to inequalities between individuals and groups; as a member of a mill-ow...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
W. H. Lee
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Unidentified head - lady

Unidentified head - lady

SW1, Cockspur Street, 25 (about)

Ornamental Passions says of this building: "originally built for the Cunard Line in the late 19th century (all the buildings in the stree...

Newlon Housing Trust

Newlon Housing Trust

From the picture source website: "Newlon Housing Trust was established in 1967 when philanthropic members of the New London Synagogue decided to club together to buy properties that could be rented...

Group, Property, Social Welfare

2 memorials