Lived and worked in North Kensington, 1960s - her death. She was the driving force behind the campaigns for better housing, more play-space and new nurseries.
At It's your Colville we were shocked to read: "The Colville Nursery Pat McDonald gates are dedicated to the People's Association community activist play worker, who was murdered by her husband."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Pat McDonald
{On the plaque attached to the railings:} Pat McDonald, working-class heroine...
The children's branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and still active in 2008 - we found the pledge with a link to join: "The Pledge: That I may give my best service to home and country...
Sailor. Born as John Travers Cornwell in Clyde Place, Leyton, he enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of 15. Killed at the Battle of Jutland, aged 16. He was serving on H.M.S. Chester during the ...
Eleanor Harvey was born on 2 September 1907 in Merton, Surrey, (now the London Borough of Merton), the second of the three daughters of William George Harvey (b.1874) and Winifred Harvey née Gunner...
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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