Group    From 1900  To 1965

Shoreditch Borough Council

The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch was created in 1900.  In 1965 it was merged with Stoke Newington and Hackney to form the London Borough of Hackney.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Shoreditch Borough Council

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Stonebridge Estate

At first we thought the plaque was deliberately mounted at a jaunty angle but...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Shoreditch Borough Council

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Passmore Edwards drinking fountain - N1

We love the elaborately correct use of English: "... in the acquisition of wh...

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Wallace drinking fountain

The plaque explains why this fountain look so familiar to anyone who has walk...

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Wenlock Barn Estate

The plaque is on the first floor balcony, in our photo partly hidden by tree ...

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Maharajah Meerza Vijiaram Gajapati Raj Manea Sooltan Bahadoor of Vijianagram

Maharajah Meerza Vijiaram Gajapati Raj Manea Sooltan Bahadoor of Vijianagram

The Vizianagaram district is on the east coast of India about a third of the way down. We get the impression that every one of the words in this man's name has at least one alternative spelling, e...

Person, Politics & Administration, India

1 memorial
Peter MacDonald
1 memorial
Baroness Garden of Frognal

Baroness Garden of Frognal

LibDem politician. Created a Life Peer in 2007.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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St Mildred's Church, Bread Street
1 memorial
People's Palace

People's Palace

Proposed by Walter Besant, the first People's Palace was built by the Beaumont Trustees, ‘Unitarian philanthropists’, to replace Beaumont's Philosophical Institution which had been in Beaumont Squa...

Building, Education, Sport / Games, Theatre

3 memorials
Friends of the Royal London Hospital

Friends of the Royal London Hospital

Registered charity also known as 'Friends of the London Hospital (Whitechapel)' and 'League of Friends'. We're guessing that this is the current form of the 1908 "friends of the hospital" that erec...

Group, Community / Clubs, Medicine

1 memorial
Football Association

Football Association

Formed on the proposal of Ebenezer Cobb Morley at the Freemasons' Tavern.  Our picture shows an early book of minutes and the picture source gives some history. 2015: Londonist posted a 1935 news ...

Group, Sport / Games

2 memorials