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Frank George Fabian Jeffery
Kelly's Beckenham Directory for 1916 lists a Frank Jeffery as the manager of London City & Midland Bank Limited 241 Beckenham Road. He seemed to be a good match for the Stanley Halls portrait p...
G. W. Palmer
We can find nothing on this man but think he was probably a Primitive Methodist who donated for the Caladonian Road Chapel.
Reuben Foundation
Their website: "Contributing to the Advancement of Healthcare & Education Around the World".
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Giovanni Battista Comolli
Italian sculptor. From Wikipedia: After 1816 till about 1820, he moved to London, where despite his prior adulation of Napoleon, he was flattered with repeated commissions. Here he made busts of Lo...
Sir Henry Newbolt
Poet. Also: lawyer, novelist, playwright and magazine editor. Born Staffordshire. Famous for one poem: 'Vitai Lampada'. Written in 1897 this oh-so-British plea for war to be played in the same spir...
John William Waterhouse
NW8, Hall Road, 10
John William Waterhouse, 1849 - 1917, painter, lived here, 1900-1917. English Heritage
Auxiliary Fire Service / AFS
The Auxiliary Fire Service was formed in 1938 as part of the Civil Defence Service and was superseded in August 1941 by the National Fire Service. After the war the AFS was reformed alongside the C...
Charlie Chaplin
Born Charles Spencer Chaplin in East Street, Walworth (possibly, see Londonist). Comic actor, composer, director and producer. Born into a music hall family. He joined a troupe of child dancers, '...
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