First chairman was the Earl of Meath. In about 1890 the MPGA was based at 83 Lancaster Gate, W. Another chairman was Fred Cleary.
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Metropolitan Public Gardens Association
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George Allen drinking fountain
With information provided by Paul Frecker (see GMA's page) we found Soho and ...
Passmore Edwards drinking fountain - E8
October 2023 Londonist: Time Machine provided this Heritage of London Trust S...
Passmore Edwards drinking fountain - N1
We love the elaborately correct use of English: "... in the acquisition of wh...
Passmore Edwards drinking fountain - SE1
The Christ Church fountain is one of several drinking fountains that Edwards ...
Ravenscroft Park
Ravenscroft Park This park was opened on 5th December 1990 by Dr David Bellam...
Other Subjects
Norland Square Garden Committee
The managing committee of Norland Square Garden in London, W11.
1 memorial
Dovehouse Green
Here we summarise the splendid London Gardens Online : Land given by Sir Hans Sloane in 1733 to serve the Chelsea Parish Church of St Luke's and became the King's Road Burial Ground. 1882 a mortu...
2 memorials
Israel Renson
The National Archives describe Renson as 'chemist and local historian" and give four paragraphs of his life story. In brief: of Russian descent, born in Scarborough Street E1, but in 1910 the famil...
1 memorial
St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, churchyard garden
Churchyard closed for burials and given to the Vestry of Bermondsey on 17 May 1882, it was opened to the public on 28 February 1883.
1 memorial
Queen's Park
An information board in the Park gives "The area that is now Queen's Park was part of the site of the 1879 Royal Kilburn Agricultural Show, which had been attended by Queen Victoria, after which th...
1 memorial
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Second Lieutenant Harold Norton Clifton
Harold Norton Clifton was born on 7 May 1894 at 32 Ashley Gardens, Westminster, the second of the three children of William Edward Clifton (1859-1921) and Isabel Clifton née Nelson (1869-1940). He ...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Born as Thomas Henry Bingham on 13 October 1933, his birth was registered in the Marylebone registration district. Appointed to the High Court Bench (Queen's Bench Division) in 1980; a Lord Justic...
2 memorials
7 memorials
Ken Friar
Managing director and secretary of Arsenal Football Club. He started working temporarily for the club while still a boy, and worked his way up through the ranks.
1 memorial
H G Wells - Baker Street
NW1, Baker Street, Chiltern Court
The H.G. Wells Society H.G. Wells, author, 1866 - 1946, lived and worked here, 1930 - 1936.
1 subject commemorated,
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