London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Wandsworth Council
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Wandsworth time capsule
In 1899 the Battersea Vestry became the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Wandsworth Council
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Albert Reginald Twyford
The plaque gives his first names as Reginald Albert in that order. However, h...
Alliott Verdon Roe - SW18
A. V. Roe, 1877 - 1958, aircraft pioneer and designer of AVRO aeroplanes, exp...
Battersea Park bandstand
Battersea Park was re-opened to the public by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT...
Biograph Theatre
Biograph Theatre opened 1908 as London's first licensed cinema. Originally th...
Brown Dog statue - original - lost
The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in g...
Other Subjects
Michael Collins
Irish nationalist and politician. Born Woodfield, County Cork. He moved to London in 1906 with his sister, spending over nine years there. An activist in the Sinn Féin movement, he was imprisoned i...
1 memorial
J. E. Salway
Vestry Clerk to the Chelsea Vestry in 1885. In the Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, 1860-61, as one of two Clerk’s Assistants J. Eisdell Salway was paid £78 p.a. and ".. upon the ap...
1 memorial
Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis
Politician, socialist-anarchist. Born Amsterdam. Began as a Lutheran preacher, lost his faith and then seems to have continued moving left-wards all his life. Born and died in the Netherlands.
1 memorial
Michael Bakunin
Revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism. Possibly the founder of anarchist theory in general. Born Russia. Well-travelled: Germany, France, Japan, London, Sweden, Sw...
1 memorial
John Hayes
J. F. R. Hayes, one of the Governors of John Lyon School in 2007 and Chairman of the Governors in 2013.
1 memorial
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The Queen's Regiment
Army regiment formed through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the Home Counties Brigade. Eventually it was amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment to form the Princess of Wales's Roy...
1 memorial
1745 Association
Oddly with a contact address in Oxfordshire, this association does a splendid job keeping the story of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 alive.
1 memorial
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