This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Putney Society
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Edward Gibbon - SW15
Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on G...
Festing Road residents killed in WW1
The first quotation is adapted from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon The s...
Gavin Ewart
Gavin Ewart, 1916 - 1995, noted poet, FRSL, lived at Kenilworth Court. The P...
Hugh Jenkins
Lord Hugh Jenkins, 1908 - 2004, Putney MP, 1964- 1979, Minister for the Arts,...
J. R. Ackerley
J. R. Ackerley, 1896 - 1967, writer and literary editor, lived here, 1941 - 1...
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Oranjehaven
A club for Dutchmen who had escaped their occupied country to join the Allied Forces. The Dutch Wikipedia has some information. The day of opening may be 2 rather than 6 (sources vary). The lite...
Vic-Wells Association
Organisation to support Sadler's Wells & the Old Vic. From their website: "The Vic-Wells Association was founded between 1922-1923 by Lilian Baylis. The Association's objective at that time wa...
Bag o' Nails Club
Established in the 1930’s. From their own website: A well-known basement music hangout of the 1930's. Featured in Anthony Powell's novel 'A Dance to the Music of Time". WW2 the club was used as ...
English and American Browning Society
Plenty of Browning Societies exist, but we can't find one with this specific name.
Canning House
A centre dedicated to stimulating understanding and engagement between Britain and the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian world, through dynamic debates, networking, events, and education activities.
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Mrs Gay Christiansen
Founder of the Kensington Society, lived at 18 Kensington Square. When she failed to stop the replacement of some houses in Young Street with an aggressively modern multi-storey car park she formed...
Queen Mary II
Daughter of James II. Reigned from 1689, jointly with her husband William III, who ruled alone after her death. Born St James Palace. We've heard there are only two statues of her in Britain. 202...
Grand Lodge of England
By 1717 the Masonic lodges were already clubs having no connection to stone-masonry. Four London lodges met at the Goose and Gridiron pub in St Paul's Churchyard and formed the first Grand Lodge, i...
Group, Community / Clubs, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
St Mary Somerset church
First recorded in the 12th century. Destroyed in the Great Fire it was rebuilt by Wren. The body was demolished in 1871 and only the tower remains. 2018: A 'screaming' keystone on this building wa...
The Salt Box
From British History On-line: "A cottage called the Salt Box was built on demesne land on the edge of the heath north of Branch Hill Lodge between 1789 and 1808 and was replaced by a house called t...
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