A society which aims to raise the awareness and appreciation of its local area, and to maintain and improve the quality of life for all who live and work in Streatham.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Streatham Society
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Henry Robertson Bowers - SW16
{Beneath a photograph of Bowers:} Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers, 1883 - 191...
Tommy Trinder
Tommy Trinder, comedian, star of film, stage & radio, was born in this ho...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
St George's Mission and St Peter's church, Wapping
1856 Reverend Charles Fuge Lowder commenced work on the mission in Wapping (named for their church St George's-in-the-East). Initially it was met with hostility, but in time it came to play an impo...
2 memorials
Memorable Order of Tin Hats / MOTH
Founded by Charles Evenden as a brotherhood of South African front-line ex-soldiers. The club-houses are known as shell-holes.
1 memorial
Black Music Congress, etc.
A number of groups related to black music history seem to have come and gone; it's difficult to disentangle them. These links were working in 2021: Black History Month, IRDUK (mentioned on the post...
1 memorial
Royal Docks Trust
From the website "It works to provide community benefits to the Docklands part of Newham between the A13 and the River Thames."
1 memorial
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Margaret Roper
Daughter of Sir Thomas More. After her executed father’s parboiled head had been displayed on a pike at London bridge for the required month, she bribed the keeper to give it to her. She pickled it...
2 memorials
88 Arlington Road
NW1, Arlington Road, 88
88 Arlington Road This building stands on the site of the Bedford Tavern (1807) famous for the balloon ascents from its Tea Gardens. He...
3 subjects commemorated
Janani Luwum
Anglican archbishop assassinated during the rule of Idi Amin, in Uganda.
1 memorial
Vita Sackville-West
Writer and gardener. Born Victoria Mary Sackville-West at Knole, near Sevenoaks, Kent, the only child of Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville. She started writing at an early age, having many...
1 memorial
Queen Elizabeth II
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on where she was brought up see Byron Statue. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on the abdication of his brot...
124 memorials
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