Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned because he refused to pay taxes that would be used for the acquisition of arms. After the war he quit his career and devoted his life to peace activism. He co-founded the peace organisation Service Civil International (SCI).
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Pierre Cérésole
Let us take the risks of peace upon ourselves not impose the risks of war upo...
Created as Brown & Co, by Samuel Brown, a Naval Captain. Became Brown Lenox & Co in 1828 following Brown going into partnership with his cousin, Samuel Lenox in 1806. The West Ferry Road ...
Based in Hammersmith initially so an early job was very local - the Hammersmith Town Hall. Also: the first electric tramway in London and the White City exhibition buildings including the 1908 Oly...
Architect. Born Edinburgh. Returned from a Grand Tour to London in 1759. Won the competition to build Blackfriars Bridge, including the approach roads from the north and the south, each with a squa...
Succeeded Lewis Angell as Borough Engineer for West Ham Council. Held the post in 1905.
The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in granite, with a basin for humans and a bowl lower down for do...
Google Street View shows the plaque in place March 2022 but just an empty frame in August 2022.
Administrator and Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
Born Daisyfield, West Hill, Wandsworth. Film director, best known for The Third Man (1949), The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) and Oliver! (1968). Knighted in 1953. Illegitimate son of the actor-prod...
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