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.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Peggy Jones
Creations i
Princess Royal Nurses Home
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Mary Tourtel
Author and artist. Born Mary Caldwell. She studied art and became a children's book illustrator. Her husband Herbert Tourtel, was news editor of the Daily Express. In 1920 the newspaper was looking...
1 memorial
Hilda Mary Martin
Killed, aged 2, in the Downhills shelter WW2 tragedy, 19 September 1940.
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Children who died in the Evelina at Guy's Hospital
See the Evelina Children's Hospital for more information.
1 memorial
East London Toy Factory
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing workshops where women were paid a pittance. Toys were no longer being imported from Germany, so the factory employed 59 women t...
1 memorial
Previously viewed
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Norman Augustus Finch, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 22-23 April 1918, age 27, while serving in the Royal Marine Artillery. "Manning the pompoms and Lewis gun of Vindictive he kept up continuous fire on land targets ...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Elizabeth Cromwell
This is not Oliver Cromwell's wife, née Elizabeth Bourchier (1598–1665), step-granddaughter and god child to William Sebright. The restored Charles II, surprisingly, left that Elizabeth Cromwell to...
1 memorial
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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