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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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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Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Born Frankfurt, Germany. Died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.

Person, Children, Seriously Famous, Tragedy, Germany, Netherlands

5 memorials
St Nicholas Nursery

St Nicholas Nursery

In association with the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.

Group, Children, Medicine

1 memorial
Billy Bunter

Billy Bunter

Character in a series of stories set in Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys weekly story magazine 'The Magnet'.

Fiction, Children, Fictional

1 memorial
Ernest Hopkins

Ernest Hopkins

Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 12. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.

Person, Children, Tragedy

1 memorial
Patricia Margaret Emery

Patricia Margaret Emery

One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Person, Children

1 memorial

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Arts Council of England / Great Britain

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,...

Group, Art

15 memorials
Edith Garrud

Edith Garrud

Suffragette and martial arts instructor. Born Edith Margaret Williams in Bath. She married William Garrud, a physical culture instructor and in 1899 they were introduced to the art of jiu-jitsu. In...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games

2 memorials
Giovanni Leto
War dead, WW1
1 memorial