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Tolpuddle Martyrs

6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, all returned home. Five of them continued their campaign and supported the Chartists.

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Tolpuddle Martyrs

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Tolpuddle Martyrs at Copenhagen Fields

Copenhagen Fields From this site on 21st April 1834 thousands marched in sup...

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Tolpuddle Martyrs mural

A modern information board informs that the mural was painted by Dave Bangs i...

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W. Meadmore

W. Meadmore

Councillor on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Carlton House / Salisbury Club

Carlton House / Salisbury Club

The house and gardens of what is now 694a High Road E11 have had a complicated series of uses which we have not bottomed out. The house and/or either of the two buildings in the front garden and/or...

Group, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Alderman W. G. Barrenger

Alderman W. G. Barrenger

In 1926, as Mayor of Hornsey he opened the newly designated Priory Park. Chairman of the Council of the Hornsey Central Hospital in 1937. In 1940 his address was given as 18, Fordington Road, Highg...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Capt. G. Gerhold

Capt. G. Gerhold

District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1912-1927. Commander in the Order of St John.

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Zachary Macaulay

Zachary Macaulay

Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Scotland. Aged 16 emigrated to Jamaica and saw slavery first hand as a slave overseer on a sugar plantation. Returned to England 1789. Sister Jean’s husband, Thomas Ba...

Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Africa, Jamaica, Scotland

4 memorials