This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
National Trust
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Morley mosaics - KEW - Octavia Hill
Octavia Hill, born 1838. The founder of modern social work through her tirele...
Octavia Hill - Finchley
Hill's family were living in Brownswell Cottages in 1851. These were on Finc...
Octavia Hill - W1
English Heritage Octavia Hill, 1838 - 1912, housing reformer and co-founder o...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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Jamestown tree
Virginians seem keen on sending us their soil: in 1921 they gave us a statue ...
National Tree Week 1987
National Tree Week is an event which has been promoted by the Tree Council si...
Sutton House & the Robertson brothers
Sutton House This building was given to the National Trust by W. A. Robertson...
Other Subjects
Raising the tower - Wandsworth All Saints
The upper storey of the west tower was added in 1841 to enable a peal of eight bells to be installed. The picture shows the tower in 1810, pre-works.
John Elger
Architect, master builder and speculative developer. Active in London and Bedford. From British History: "... a Bedford carpenter's son who had made his name in the 1820s and '30s as a speculative...
Marcial Echenique
Professor of Land Use and Transport Studies and Dean of Architecture at Cambridge. Born Chile. Awarded an OBE in 2009.
Richard Norman Shaw
Architect. Born Edinburgh. Pioneer of Old English and Queen Anne styles. His London works include: 1-2 St James Street, Grim's Dyke, the Royal Geographic Society, 17 Chelsea Embankment, Bedford Par...
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Dr. John William Polidori
This entry has kindly been written for us by Franklin Bishop, expert on Polidori, and editor of "John William Polidori ‘The Vampyre’ and other writings", 2005. Polidori wrote The Vampyre, a novell...
Gerard Manley Hopkins - NW3
NW3, Oak Hill Way, Oakhill House
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889, priest and poet, lived in Oakhill Park 1852 - 1863. "The World is charged with the grandeur of Go...
Reginald Ruggles Gates
Husband to Marie Stopes, botanist and geneticist. Born Nova Scotia, Canada. His marriage to Marie Stopes was a very public failure. Co-authored a book entitled "The Inheritance of Hairy Ear Ri...
River Effra
At the Brockwell Lido plaque there is an information board which begins by explaining the function of stink pipes: "What is a stink pipe? The lofty green pipe behind you is a Victorian stink pipe, ...
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