Person    | Male  Born 31/7/1952 

Pete Broadbent

Categories: Religion

Bishop of Willesden from 2001. He caused controversy when Prince William and Catherine Middleton became engaged. He announced he was a republican, calling the couple 'shallow celebrities' and saying that the marriage would last less than seven years.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Pete Broadbent

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Harrow Civic Centre war memorial

A very modern war memorial (which even has seating space for the weary), but ...

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Canon Samuel Barnett

Canon Samuel Barnett

Social reformer. While curate of St Mary's in Bryanston Square, met Henrietta Barnett and married her in his own church. The site given as the picture source is a forum where the infamous Jack the...

Person, Jack the Ripper suspects, Religion, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Holy Trinity Priory

Holy Trinity Priory

Demolished by Henry VIII as part of the dissolution of the monasteries. Our picture shows the ruins as they were in 1826. c.1485 the priory built Bromley Hall, a manor house near the River Lea, st...

Building, Religion

1 memorial
J. D.

J. D.

Connected to the Salvation Army Citadel, Ronalds Road in 1890.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
First Dutch church, Austin Friars

First Dutch church, Austin Friars

The original Austin Friars monestery dates from about 1250. In 1550 Edward VI granted Protestant refugees from the Netherlands permission to establish a church here, the first Dutch Protestant chur...

Building, Religion, Netherlands

2 memorials
Robert Raikes

Robert Raikes

Promoter of the Sunday School movement. Born and died Gloucester.

Person, Education, Religion

1 memorial

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James "Bronterre" O'Brien

James "Bronterre" O'Brien

Democrat & chartist. Born County Longford, Ireland. Bronterre was initially a pseudonym but he later adopted it as his middle name. A child prodigy, he fell short of his early promise and died ...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Ireland

1 memorial
Cecil V. Jones

Cecil V. Jones

Resident of the West Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
John Robinson

John Robinson

Past Prime Warden of The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers and son of Dennis Robinson.

Person, Politics & Administration

0 memorials
Tachbrook - opening

Tachbrook - opening

SW1, Bessborough Street

Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site.  In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...

1 subject commemorated