Our picture is one of the illustrations by Peggy Fortnum.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Paddington Bear
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Paddington Bear - plaque and book seat
The seat below the plaque is in the form of a book with the Bear himself pain...
Paddington Bear statue - Paddington Station, gone
{The statue has two integral texts: On a label stuck to the suitcase:} Wanted...
Paddington Bear - statue, platform 1
Since arriving at Paddington Station from Peru this bear's journeys have not ...
Other Subjects
Mother Goose
The interment register at St Olaves Hart Street records Mother Goose being buried on 14 September 1586. This is extremely strange so we did some digging. The story of a goose laying golden eggs ca...
Robinson Crusoe
Titular character in the novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719. See also Friday.
Marley's ghost
One of Charles Dickens characters from A Christmas Carol (1843).
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London County Council
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
Nell Deller
Local community organiser and campaigner. Lived on the Peckwater Estate 1966 - 2003. A play centre in 1972, some play groups, countless ‘jollies’ to the seaside for tenants - all owe their existen...
Queen's Park Area Residents' Association
From the website: "QPARA was established by local residents in 1973 as an entirely voluntary organisation keen to preserve the integrity of the conservation area … and that’s what we still do, but ...
National Sporting Club
Founded by John Fleming and A. F. "Peggy" Bettinson. First president Hugh Cecil Lowther, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale. It became the home of modern glove boxing, with bouts taking place in silence, after...
Mrs Toulson
Married to Rev. Joseph Toulson. From My Primitive Methodists: "Joseph married Mary Ann Sanderson (1829-1912) in the summer of 1850. Census returns identify two children. Mary Hannah (1851-1936) – ...
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