Group    From 1910 

Overseas League

Categories: Community / Clubs

The Royal Over-Seas League was founded in 1910 by Sir Evelyn Wrench to foster international understanding and friendship.

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Overseas League

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Overseas League

{Inscribed on the stone below the casket:} Vernon House was bought by The Ov...

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Empire Memorial Sailors' Hospital

Empire Memorial Sailors' Hospital

Built following an appeal (largely organised by women) throughout the British Empire. It provided 205 single cabins for homeless merchant seamen in London, and by 1929 had accommodated over a milli...

Building, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Eltham Society

Eltham Society

A society with the aims of preserving the past, conserving the present, and protecting the future. 

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
William Beckham

William Beckham

William Beckham is the boy lying on his side on the left at the front in the photograph of the scout troop.  He was one of the ten children of William John Beckham (1870-1917) and Harriett Beckham...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials
Dick Moy

Dick Moy

Richard Francis Moy was born on 6 May 1932, the son of Richard Albert Moy (1902-1971) and Doris Winifred Garrood (1907-2009). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1932 in the Lambeth regi...

Person, Community / Clubs, History

1 memorial
William Robert Bellenie Walker M.V.O.

William Robert Bellenie Walker M.V.O.

Diver. Born William Robert Bellenie in Newington, SE1 (but we can't find the address). Began diver training at Portsmouth Dockyard and qualified in 1892. He is famous as the saviour of Winchester C...

Person, Armed Forces, Community / Clubs, Engineering

1 memorial

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Loughton Town Council

Loughton Town Council

An Urban District Council from 1900 to 1933. It became part of Chigwell Urban District until 1974, when Epping Forest District Council was created. Loughton Town Council was established in 1996.

Group, Politics & Administration

16 memorials
Horatio Prater

Horatio Prater

Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has found someone who is probably our man, Andrew writes: I can find no evidence of an H. Prater in the Croydon area in the 1880's so I believe that the Historic Engla...

Person, Benefactor, Medicine

2 memorials