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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William Hopkins

William Hopkins

One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Borough of Wembley

Borough of Wembley

Former London borough. It was created from part of the existing Hendon Rural Sanitary District, and originally consisted of two civil parishes: Kingsbury and Wembley. Abolished by the London Govern...

Group, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Martin van Buren

Martin van Buren

Eighth US President. Born in Kinderhook, N.Y., USA. For a list of all the US presidents that appear on London Remembers see John F. Kennedy.

Person, Politics & Administration, USA

1 memorial
Councillor L. Goldstein

Councillor L. Goldstein

Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Jacqueline Theodora Cockburn

Jacqueline Theodora Cockburn

Born Jacqueline Theodora Trotter, daughter of Henry Trotter and sister to Angela Olivia Trotter, Countess of Limerick (1897 – 1981). Married Archibald Cockburn and lived in Cheyne Walk. Died withou...

Person, Politics & Administration

3 memorials

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Sharpeville Massacre

Sharpeville Massacre

This took place near the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng). After a day of demonstrations against pass laws (these were an internal pa...

Event, Race Issues, Tragedy, South Africa

1 memorial
Anne Sharpley

Anne Sharpley

Journalist. At art school in York in the 1940s she won a competition organised by Vogue which was the start of her career as a journalist. Investigative reporter on the Evening Standard in the 60s....

Person, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial