Group    From 1965 

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. It was originally planned to call it just Kensington, but Chelsea was added after local protests.

The vestries of Kensington and of Chelsea were precursors to this body.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Avondale Park

This park was acquired and laid out by the Vestry of Kensington with financia...

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Dovehouse Green - blue plaques

{Top plaque:} To celebrate the silver jubilee of Elizabeth II 1952-1977 and ...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Abbotsbury Gate

Abbotsbury Gate - Holland Park Made possible by the bequest of the late Miss ...

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Albert Bridge - troops

In 1831 the Broughton Suspension Bridge collapsed as a troop of 74 men marche...

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Arthur Stanley Wint

Arthur Stanley Wint 1920 - 1992, RAF pilot,doctor & diplomat, gold medal ...

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Boy David

Commissioned to create a WW1 memorial to the Machine Gun Corps Derwent Wood p...

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Campden Hill Square

Campden Hill Square was laid out by Joshua Flesher Hanson in 1826. Gates and ...

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John Pym

John Pym

Born Somerset Supporter of the Parliamentary cause and MP. Died Derby House (was in Cannon Row, Westminster) and was buried in Westminster Abbey with a state funeral. When Charles II was restored ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Arthur Deakin, CH, CBE

Arthur Deakin, CH, CBE

General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union, 1940 until his death. Born Warwickshire. Died Leicester where he had been addressing a May Day rally. Alamy have a lovely photo of D...

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Efraim Zinger

Efraim Zinger

Chair, Israel Olympic Committee

Person, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Capt. H. A. Fenton, LMSSA (London)

Capt. H. A. Fenton, LMSSA (London)

Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 (Prince of Wales's) District, 1928-1939. Officer in the Order of St John. SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 19 MARCH, 1946 carries th...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Aske's Hospital

Aske's Hospital

About the building, from Shoreditch College: "The first building on {this site} was Aske's Hospital or the Haberdashers' Alms Houses, erected 1690-93 to designs of Robert Hooke ... for the Worshipf...

Group, Education, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Metropolitan Police

Metropolitan Police

Founded in 1829 by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and on 26 September of that year, over 1,000 men were sworn in in the grounds of the Foundling Hospital. (From Sarah Wise's boo...

Group, Emergency Services

13 memorials
Heritage Foundation

Heritage Foundation

We believe this group now encompasses Comic Heritage, Musical Heritage, Sports Heritage and Films and Television Heritage. Its aim is to pay tribute to Britain's entertainers and raise funds for go...

Group, Cinema, History, Humour, Music / songs, Sport / Games, Theatre, TV & Radio

64 memorials
First residential roof-top wind turbines

First residential roof-top wind turbines

The published benefits of domestic wind turbines vary enormously. Taking a very rough average, each one saves about five tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere each year, and p...

Group, Engineering

1 memorial
Ethel Gordon Fenwick

Ethel Gordon Fenwick

Click on International Council of Nurses for information about the world's first international organisation for health professionals, which she co-founded. Ethel Gordon Manson was born 26 January ...

Person, Medicine, Scotland

1 memorial