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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Helena Aniela Zdzislawa Fedorowicz

Helena Aniela Zdzislawa Fedorowicz

We could find no information about Helena Fedorowicz. The memorial says that she fought for her family, the Woodstock Road Association and the Polish people. We guessed that she lived in Woodstock ...

Person, Community / Clubs, Poland

1 memorial
Globe Town

Globe Town

Area of London, approximately within Bethnal Green, Bow and Stepney Green. It was established to provide for the expanding population of Huguenot and Irish silk weavers. A track running north from ...

Place, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Peter Warlock Society

Peter Warlock Society

The address of the Society is given as Schenectady, NY.

Group, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, USA

1 memorial
Freedom Press

Freedom Press

Anarchist publishing house in Whitechapel. Co-founded by Peter Kropotkin as an outlet and meeting place for the radical and anarchist thinkers of the day and has operated, with short breaks, ever s...

Group, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration

3 memorials
Brook and Cranleigh House Residents Association

Brook and Cranleigh House Residents Association

Also known as "Brook and Cranleigh House Tenants and Residents Association".  Active c. 2013.

Group, Community / Clubs

2 memorials

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Greyfriars Monastery

Greyfriars Monastery

A monastery was established here by the grey-habited Franciscans. Following the dissolution of the monasteries the church was renamed Christchurch and in 1552 the remains of the monastery were conv...

Place, Religion

2 memorials
The Village in the Jungle

The Village in the Jungle

Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.

Fiction, Literature, Sri Lanka

1 memorial
Millbank Prison - Australia

Millbank Prison - Australia

VIC 3931, Main Street, Mornington, Victoria, Australia, 21

We thank John Billing, resident of Mornington, for telling us about this bollard and sending us all the information and the pictures.  (T...

3 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
E. Lambert

E. Lambert

Member of the staff of A. W. Gamage Ltd and/or Benetfink & Co. Ltd. Killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Charles Jamrach

Charles Jamrach

Dealer in birds and wildlife generally. Born Johann Christian Carl Jamrach in either Hamburg or Memel (depending on source). He moved to London and became an importer, breeder, and exporter of anim...

Person, Commerce, Germany

2 memorials