Event    From 1586  To 1986

quatercentenary of the City of Westminster

Event

Four-hundredth anniversary.

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quatercentenary of the City of Westminster

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Bond Street

The "Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster" was present but no name is given....

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Chinese lions

{On the plaques attached to the brickwork, the right-hand one being in Englis...

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James Stephen

James Stephen

Anti-slavery campaigner.  Born Dorset.  Trained in law and worked for a time in the Carribean where he saw the cruelty to slaves and became an abolitionist.  The death of his first wife deepened hi...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Wally Green

Wally Green

Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Senator Robert Kennedy

Senator Robert Kennedy

Born at Boston, Massachusetts. Assassinated at Los Angeles, California while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA

1 memorial
David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead

David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead

Physician and civil rights campaigner. Councillor; Chairman of Greater London Council

Person, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Joseph Newbon

Joseph Newbon

Founded the United Wards Club and fought to have the Bell Inn plaque erected. Born Blackheath. Died Putney. The picture source website provides much information about Newbon.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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London Bridge attack, 2017

This terror attack involved vehicle-ramming and stabbing. A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then crashed on Borough High Street, just south of the River Thames. T...

Event, Terrorism, Tragedy

2 memorials
Greater London Council

Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone.  On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...

Group, Politics & Administration

241 memorials
Sir William Leishman

Sir William Leishman

Born Glasgow. With the army in India where he developed an interest in kala azar. This and his anti-typhoid work are his achievements. He remained with the army medical service throughout his career.

Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, Scotland

1 memorial
Peacock Inn, Islington

Peacock Inn, Islington

From Islington Council:"Four inns are known to have occupied this site, with the earliest dating from 1564. The Peacock has been immortalised both in print and on canvas. In 1823, James Pollard pai...

Building, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial
David Ingman

David Ingman

David Charles Ingham was born on 22 March 1928, the younger son of Charles Ingman (1896-1983) and Hetty Muriel Ingham née Bevan (1897-1974). His father was a chemical engineer. The 1939 England and...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial