A charity run entirely by volunteers, which each week records local news taken from the Sutton Guardian, for blind and visually impaired people in the Borough of Sutton.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sutton Talking Newspaper for the Blind
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Thomas Wall - Russettings
Russettings 25 Worcester Road This house was built in 1885. In 1899 it was ow...
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E. V. Knox
Editor of Punch, 1932 - 1949, essayist and poet. Used the penname Evoe. In 1977 his daughter, Penelope Fitzgerald the author, wrote a biography, "The Knox Brothers" of him and his two brothers.
1 memorial
Ruth First
South African freedom fighter. Born Johannesburg. Married Slovo in 1949; the writer Gillian Slovo is their daughter. Killed by a parcel bomb addressed to her in Mozambique where she was living in e...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Nationalism, Race Issues, Africa, South Africa
1 memorial
Edward Orme
Engraver, painter and publisher of illustrated books, and property developer in Bayswater. Born Manchester. c.1800-24 he published and sold many books of aquatints and etchings, in his own shops in...
1 memorial
Philip Geddes
Journalist, 24. From Geddes Trust (previously geddesprize.co.uk): The awards are named after Philip Geddes, a member of St Edmund Hall {Oxford University} and a journalist of considerable promise. ...
1 memorial
Rupert Murdoch
Co-funder of the Reagan statue in Grosvenor Square. An Australian/American media mogul.
2 memorials
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Oliver Goldsmith - SE5
SE5, Peckham Road, Oliver Goldsmith Primary School
The plaque fails to explain why it is here, or why this school has this name, which is probably the same thing. Trying to answer this qu...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Fred Cleary
EC4, Huggin Hill, Cleary Gardens
This garden was once the site of a Roman bath house. A nearby modern information board explains: As a result of wartime bombing of the Ci...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Broadway Palace development - Tooting - Agriculture
SW17, Mitcham Road, 22, (26, 28), 30, all on west side
This 1940-67 NLS map shows a 'picture theatre (disused)' at number 24 (now flat-fronted post-war shops), and at Cinema Treasures we found...
1 subject commemorated
Jean Charles de Menezes
Born Brazil. Electrician. Shot dead in a tube carriage by counter-terrorist police officers hunting for would-be suicide bombers who had attempted to attack the London transport system the day be...
1 memorial
John Rogers
Protestant martyr burned at Smithfield. The first of the 'Marian Martyrs'.
1 memorial
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