Fiction    From 1914  To 1940

Sunbeam

Children's comic published by James Henderson and Sons. It featured 'Dr Rhino's Jolly Jungle Boys' and 'Willie And Winnie And Wuffles The Pup'. Originally called 'Sparks' it went through various changes of name before becoming Sunbeam in 1920. It was eventually merged with 'Tiny Tots'.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sunbeam

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Sunbeam Weekly and the Pilgrim's Pocket

The statue (next to a lamppost), comprises a (ghost of a) pilgrim father, loo...

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Christopher David Pullen

Christopher David Pullen

Christopher Pullen, aged 12, died in Southdown House when a heavy steel fire door, lying off its hinges, propped up in the stairwell of a block of flats, fell on him causing fatal injuries. The doo...

Person, Children, Tragedy

1 memorial
Laburnum Street School

Laburnum Street School

A primary school, demolished to make way for the Bridge Academy. Our photo shows a 2014 reunion taking place in the school hall. We believe the building appears (in the distance) in a photo on Spit...

Building, Children, Education

3 memorials
William Riley

William Riley

Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 11. Buried in grave 4 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.

Person, Children, Tragedy

1 memorial
Thompson James Filmer

Thompson James Filmer

Thompson James Filmer is the 1st on the left of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 28 January 1900, the eighth of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials
Valerie Looker

Valerie Looker

Killed, aged 18 mths, in the Downhills shelter WW2 tragedy, 19 September 1940.

Person, Children

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial

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St Benedict's Hospital - turret + portico

St Benedict's Hospital - turret + portico

SW17, Limetree Walk

This reminds us of that scene at the end of Planet of the Apes.

1 subject commemorated
War memorial - Walworth Square

War memorial - Walworth Square

SE17, Wansey Street, Walworth Square

This depicts an anonymous 12-year-old youth standing on a giant, fallen ash tree. The inscription is a line from a WW2 poem by Hamish Hen...

1 subject commemorated, 3 creators
All Saints Fulham war memorial

All Saints Fulham war memorial

SW6, Putney Bridge Approach, All Saints church, Fulham

War memorials online provides: "This memorial commemorates parishioners who died during the Great War. Their names are recorded on a seco...

2 subjects commemorated
S. Triggs
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Fredrick William Anscombe

Fredrick William Anscombe

Nephew to William Henry Anscombe.  Active in 1908.

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial