Group    From 1965 

Wandsworth Council

London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.

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Wandsworth Council

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Wandsworth time capsule

In 1899 the Battersea Vestry became the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.

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Wandsworth Council

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Albert Reginald Twyford

The plaque gives his first names as Reginald Albert in that order. However, h...

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Alliott Verdon Roe - SW18

A. V. Roe, 1877 - 1958, aircraft pioneer and designer of AVRO aeroplanes, exp...

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Battersea Park bandstand

Battersea Park was re-opened to the public by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT...

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Biograph Theatre

Biograph Theatre opened 1908 as London's first licensed cinema. Originally th...

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Brown Dog statue - original - lost

The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in g...

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Southwark Council

Southwark Council

The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark, Camberwell and Bermondsey. Southwark council annually invites proposals for new plaques fro...

Group, Politics & Administration

91 memorials
Rear-Admiral, Sir William Fairbrother Carroll, KCB

Rear-Admiral, Sir William Fairbrother Carroll, KCB

Naval officer.  Born Ireland, Co. Wicklow.  "Royal naval biography; or, Memoirs of ..." has a full biography.  Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, where he died. The Greenwich monument has his n...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Ireland

1 memorial
Councillor A. H. Gillison

Councillor A. H. Gillison

Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922. Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.

Person, Politics & Administration

3 memorials
Francis Bennoch

Francis Bennoch

On the Executive Committee for the 1851 Great Exhibition Memorial.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir John Cass

Sir John Cass

Tory politician, slave trader and philanthropist. Date of birth unknown so we use his date of baptism, which took place at St Botolph, Aldgate. 1705 became a director of the Royal African Company w...

Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

2 memorials