This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
National Children's Bureau
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National Children's Bureau
The inscription in the stone is merely functional but the overlapping childre...
Other Subjects
Holly Susan Whitlock
2015: Our colleague Andrew Behan has been register-diving again and writes: "I think that this three year old girl was Holly Susan Whitlock. The registers record her death in the Borough of Camden,...
John Newbery
Publisher who was the first to be successful with books for children. Born Berkshire. Died at home in St Paul's Churchyard. In the absense of a picture of Newbery himself we are showing one of his...
Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy
On Saturday the 3rd August 1912, the 2nd Walworth Troop of five adults and twenty-four young scouts sailed from Waterloo Bridge for Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey. They moored at Erith for the nig...
Ernest Hopkins
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 12. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
June Wilkinson
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
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English Hedonists
The artist Carrie Reichardt is part of this group, probably its main artist, "Mad in England" being her trademark. 2018: Via Facebook Carrie kindly confirmed that she had made this series for a co...
Heal's furniture store
John Harris Heal established a feather dressing business at 33 Rathbone Place, moving to Tottenham Court Road in 1818. This became a family business selling beds and moved to larger premises in the...
St John's Wood Heritage
We can find no information but assume this is/was a group created to protect the heritage of St John's Wood.
Quaker Gardens
Also called Bunhill Fields Burial Ground and so easy to confuse with the non-conformist Bunhill Fields Burial Ground which is on the other side of Bunhill Row. From London Gardens Online: “Quaker ...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poet Laureate. Born Lincolnshire. Wrote 'Morte d'Arthur' (1859-85) about King Arthur and 'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) a long elegy for his Cambridge friend and his sister Emily's fiancé, Arthur He...
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