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
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
The Clapham Society
Clapham Common deep shelter. Built 1942. Troop hostel & government use ar...
The Lodge, built 1868. Clapham fire station 1868 - 1902. The Clapham Society
Odeon Cinema, 1938 - 1972, refurbished 1999 as foyer apartments. The Clapham ...
Eagle House built 1773. The surviving south wing refurbished 2008. The Clapha...
Oddfellows Hall, Pride of Clapham Lodge, built 1852. Baptist Chapel 1852 - 19...
Coaching Inn. It's origin is uncertain, but in the 15th century it was owned by the Poynings family and was known as the Crossed Keys or Crowned Keys. It may have been renamed in honour of Queen El...
Initiated by Roger Fenton and founded in London as the Photographic Society of London with Fenton as its first Secretary. The inaugural meeting was held at the, then, Society of Arts. Received Roya...
"Our objects are to create the sense of community that one would hope to find in a good village, to increase awareness of local history and the character that make Dulwich special, to foster an app...
In the aftermath of the London riots of 2011, the Peckham Shed encouraged local residents to put post-it notes on the boards covering the broken windows of the Poundland shop in order to show their...
Naval officer and colonial governor. Born in Plymouth. He served under Captain James Cook and was chosen to command the Bounty on a voyage to Tahiti to collect bread-fruit plants. On the return jo...
Person, Armed Forces, Exploring, Seriously Famous, Australia
Architect. Born Clapham Common and brought up in Grayshott, a village in Hampshire. In 1890 the family home Grayshott Court was completely destroyed by fire. The picture source website has an art...
Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.
Architects. Donald St Aubyn Hamilton (1907–1956). From 1934 Hamilton worked for Lilley and Skinner in Oxford Street, nos 360–366, moving his office there in 1935. "His firm, now Donald Hamilton, Wa...
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