Businessman. Born Liverpool. His brand name being Castrol he was very successful and set up in the City of London. Lord Mayor in 1915-16. Promoted and funded pioneering aviation and motor sports. 1933 set up the Tower Hill Improvement Trust with Tubby Clayton and then set up the Wakefield Trust, to which he gave a number of houses in the Tower Hill area, initially to help All Hallows by the Tower and Toc H. It continues doing good works.
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Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, Charles Cheers
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Wakefield and the TA
Lord Wakefield of Hythe CBE, Hon. Col. 2nd City of London Regt. R.F., laid th...
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1 memorial
Croydon airport
Croydon was London's first international airport. The terminal building, 1928 - 1959, was one of the first purpose-built terminal buildings in the world. The air traffic control tower is the first ...
3 memorials
Frederick Handley Page
Aircraft designer and manufacturer. His company manufactured the Halifax bombers used in WW2.
1 memorial
Battle of Britain
As part of WW2 the Germans set out to gain supremacy over the RAF in the British skies. This, the Battle of Britain, was the first time that a major campaign took place in the air. The Luftwaffe at...
5 memorials
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Burgess, Clark and Whittard
E14, Canada Square
The building in the background is 8 Canada Square, HSBC's London head office, and the building on which the 3 construction workers lost t...
4 subjects commemorated
Eric Newton
Artist, writer, broadcaster and art critic. He produced several books in addition to his newspaper and radio work. His radio broadcasts made him well known to the British public in the 1930s. Art c...
2 memorials
Linnell & Blake
NW3, North End, Old Wyldes
Greater London Council John Linnell, 1792 - 1882, painter lived here. William Blake, 1757 - 1827, poet and artist, stayed here as his...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Harmondsworth Vicarage Hall
UB7, Harmondsworth High Street
The plaque was a foundation stone laid into the wall of the building but it now serves as a memorial to the building which was demolished...
1 subject commemorated,
4 creators
1 memorial
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