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Allister Bowtell
From RBKC document: "Allister Bowtell died on 20 September 2006 and was given a splendid send off nine days later, organised by his friends from the Vesta Rowing Club and Chelsea Arts Club. He was ...
Richard Reginald Goulden
Born Dover. In WW1 served with the Royal Engineers in France. Other London works include: a war memorial at St John, Hackney, the Hornsey County School War Memorial now housed in the Crouch End To...
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George Orwell
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a British colonial civil servant. Joined the Indian imperial police in Burma but left in 1927 and decided to become a writer. ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio, Bengal, Burma, France, India, Spain
Arts Council of England / Great Britain
1940 the Committee for Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) was set up by Royal Charter. About 1946 it became the Arts Council of Great Britain and in 1994 it was split into national bodies,...
Thames Path
The Thames Path is a National Trail following the River Thames from one of its sources, Thames Head, to the Woolwich foot tunnel. It is about 185 miles (298 km) long. A path was first proposed in 1...
Edwin Russell
Sculptor. Born Edwin John Cumming Russell. He studied at the Brighton School of Art and the Royal Academy School. Other works in London include sundials at Tower Hill and at the Marine Society in V...
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