Person    | Male  Born 1839  Died 1912

Sir Albert Joseph Altman

Chairman of the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.

His portrait comes from an 1894 card celebrating his silver wedding anniversary. It also has a portrait of his wife and of Tower Bridge.

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Sir Albert Joseph Altman

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Tower Bridge, 1894 - opening

In 1894 the royal personages listed at the top of the plaque as: Prince of Wa...

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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

239 memorials
Claudia Jones

Claudia Jones

Born Trinidad. Moved to New York where she became a Communist. Caught up in the McCarthy trials she was imprisoned and then extradited to Britain in December 1955.  Became a community organiser aft...

Person, Community / Clubs, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands

2 memorials
Thomas Bentley Westacott

Thomas Bentley Westacott

Deputy Chairman of the St Pancras Vestry General Purposes Committee in the late 1800s.

Person, Politics & Administration

3 memorials
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham

Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham

Born Wales.  His father was executed by Richard III.  Buckingham was part of the court of Henry VII and Henry VIII but his Plantagenet heritage made Henry suspicious of him and so following a trial...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration, Wales

1 memorial
Alan D. Savage

Alan D. Savage

MBE DFM.   RAF bomber pilot.  Designed the Croydon Aerodrome WW2 memorial and was nstrumental in having it erected.

Person, History, Politics & Administration

1 memorial