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.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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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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John Mixer

John Mixer

Co-churchwarden at Christ Church, Newgate Street in 1888.

Person, Politics & Administration

0 memorials
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels

Political philosopher. Born Barmen, Germany. Died at home in Regent's Park Road. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says at number 41 but there is no suggestion anywhere else that the Enge...

Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Germany

2 memorials
A. Deans

A. Deans

Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Bostall Estate in 1900.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
A. J. Gillett

A. J. Gillett

Andrew Gillett, Master of the Founders Company in 2013. Wrote the history of the Founders Company.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC

Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC

Soldier and administrator. Born Bernard Cyril Freyberg in Richmond, Surrey. He spent his early life in New Zealand, and at the outbreak of WWI enlisted in Britain and fought in Gallipoli and France...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, France, New Zealand, Turkey

War served, WW1
3 memorials

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Dame Marie Rambert

Dame Marie Rambert

Ballet dancer who had a great influence on ballet in Britain. Born Cyvia Ramberg in Poland. Arrived in England in 1914. Married Ashley Dukes in 1918, a marriage which lasted until his death. Founde...

Person, Dance, Poland

2 memorials
World's first cash machine

World's first cash machine

In spite of the plaque's claim, there is evidence of a cash dispensing machine being used in Tokyo in 1966. The invention of the British version has been credited to John Shepherd-Barron of the pri...

Event, Commerce, Engineering

2 memorials