Group    From 1963 

The Clapham Society

Categories: Community / Clubs, History

A society founded with the aim of improving the quality of life in Clapham and to strengthen its identity and sense of community.

Initiated a Green Plaque Scheme in 2011 to commemorate interesting buildings in Clapham.

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

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The Clapham Society

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Clapham Common deep shelter

Clapham Common deep shelter. Built 1942. Troop hostel & government use ar...

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Clapham fire station

The Lodge, built 1868. Clapham fire station 1868 - 1902. The Clapham Society

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Clapham Odeon

Odeon Cinema, 1938 - 1972, refurbished 1999 as foyer apartments. The Clapham ...

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Eagle House - Clapham

Eagle House built 1773. The surviving south wing refurbished 2008. The Clapha...

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Oddfellows Hall Clapham

Oddfellows Hall, Pride of Clapham Lodge, built 1852. Baptist Chapel 1852 - 19...

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Other Subjects

Wolf Club

Wolf Club

Used to meet at The Coal Hole in the Strand. In about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading founder member.  Qualification for membership: being forbidden by your wife to sing in the bath.  So the club ch...

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Hayes Literary Society

Hayes Literary Society

We can find little about this group but they were very active in 1992  re. Orwell.

Group, Community / Clubs, Literature

1 memorial
The inhabitants of Charlton

The inhabitants of Charlton

Charlton is an area of South-East London which still retains the feel of a village. Daniel Defoe described it as: 'A village famous, or rather infamous for the yearly collected rabble of mad-people...

Group, Community / Clubs

2 memorials
Richardson Evans

Richardson Evans

Civil servant, journalist and author. He served in the Indian Civil Service, for North-Western Provinces from 1867 to 1876, after which he worked in London as a journalist. From the 1880s onwards, ...

Person, Community / Clubs, Journalism / Publishing, Belgium, India

1 memorial
British-German Association

British-German Association

The Association came into being in the House of Commons.  Those involved in setting it up include:  Sir George Catlin, Dr Thomas Mann, Dr Adolf Grimme - Minister of Education for Lower Saxony, Sir ...

Group, Community / Clubs, Germany

1 memorial