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Tokyo Sherlock Holmes Society

Categories: Community / Clubs, Literature

Countries: Japan

Group

Active in 1953. Initiated by Richard Hughes and also known as the Baritsu Chapter.

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Tokyo Sherlock Holmes Society

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Holmes & Watson - Criterion - lost

The presence of Sherlock Holmes at this unveiling is rather misleading since ...

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The Establishment Club

The Establishment Club

Peter Cook said this was modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War". Lenny Bruce, Barry Humphries, ...

Group, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Humour

1 memorial
Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group

Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group

This group was originally set up (2003 or earlier) to improve the Clapton Pond park and pond, and the surrounding area.

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Oddfellows

Oddfellows

Odd Fellows (or Oddfellows, Odd Fellowship, Oddfellowship) is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London.  Similar in concept to Freemasonry.

Group, Community / Clubs

2 memorials
Coal Hole Tavern

Coal Hole Tavern

The meeting place of the Wolf Club of which in about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member.  Lawrence Silverman tells us that, later, this was the tavern where Renton Nicholson staged his very rude...

Place, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

1 memorial

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W. W. Phillips

W. W. Phillips

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
The Mothers Arms

The Mothers Arms

E2, Old Ford Road, Tait Court

We chickened out of deciding where to put the apostrophe in 'Mothers'.

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Bryan Tompson

Bryan Tompson

A freelance engineer, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 61. According to the monument, Tompson's ashes (and only his) lie buried beneath it. We thoug...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Wellington Arch - Quadriga

Wellington Arch - Quadriga

SW1, Hyde Park Corner

While still Prince of Wales, Edward VII saw a plaster version of this sculpture and initiated the idea of a bronze version being erected ...

3 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
John Maxwell Edmonds

John Maxwell Edmonds

Poet and classical scholar.  Born Gloucestershire.  Died Cambridge.  In 1918-9 he published a few epitaphs for use on graves and memorials, including: When you go home, tell them of us and say, Fo...

Person, Poetry

9 memorials