Associated with the Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road, 1883.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Miss Falder
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Aske's Hospital
About the building, from Shoreditch College: "The first building on {this site} was Aske's Hospital or the Haberdashers' Alms Houses, erected 1690-93 to designs of Robert Hooke ... for the Worshipf...
William Johnson Cory
Teacher, scholar and poet. Born Devon as William Johnson. As assistant master at Eton College, 1845 - 1872, he composed the words for the Eton Boating Song. In 1850 he published a collection of ...
John Runtz
Born at 3 William Street, Kingsland Road. He became a Tunbridge Ware manufacturer, then a music teacher. He broadened his interests to the general education of working-class children and became the...
Person, Education, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
Joint Service Defence College
A training academy for British military personnel. It was established as the Combined Staff College in Latimer, Buckinghamshire. Renamed the National Defence College in 1971. Moved to Greenwich in ...
Emily Davies
Suffragist and promoter of higher education for women. Born Sarah Emily Davies in Southampton. She edited a feminist publication and became active on the London School Board. She was instrumental i...
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African National Congress
N1, Penton Street, 28
From the Islington Tribune: "The three-storey office was the headquarters of the ANC between 1978 and 1994. It was there that Oliver Tamb...
World War 2
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
Lincoln Committee
Active in 1930. Trying to research this we found a number of "Lincoln Committee"s, possibly one for every Lincoln memorial ever erected.
Kate Greenaway
Illustrator of children's books and poet. Born 21 Cavendish Street N1 (now entirely post-war blocks of flats). She and her family moved to Upper Street in 1852. She worked for London branch of Marc...
Francis Percy Hodes
Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Penge Urban District Council 1921 - 22. In 1937, when was elected as one of the County Aldermen for Kent he was described as a retired engineer and his add...
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