Building    From 1906  To 16/11/1940

Wandsworth Fire Station

Categories: Armed Forces, Tragedy

The display stand that forms part of the memorial contains a picture of this building shortly after the fire, but the glazing makes it difficult to photograph so we are using a picture of the building in happier days.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Wandsworth Fire Station

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Wandsworth Fire Station - stone plaque 1

The report in the glazed stand contain this text:  The memorial stones outsid...

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Wandsworth Fire Station - wall plaque

AFS - London In memory of six members of the London Auxiliary Fire Service wh...

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Other Subjects

G. Beeken

G. Beeken

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
J. P. Fisher

J. P. Fisher

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Charles Albert Cook

Charles Albert Cook

Contrary to the information contained in our Picture Source, Captain Charles Albert Cook was born on 11 July 1916 in Pasadena, California, USA, one of the five children of Charles Albert Cook (1875...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
William Allison White, VC

William Allison White, VC

Awarded the VC for his heroism on 18 September 1918, age 23, while serving in the Machine Gun Corps. "Three times he charged ahead and captured enemy guns and positions. His example of fearless and...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
W. J. Wilkinson

W. J. Wilkinson

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial

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Charles Robinson

Charles Robinson

In 1835 founded C.A. Robinson & Co.

Person, Commerce

2 memorials
Smith, Elder & Co.

Smith, Elder & Co.

Publishers at 65 Cornhill (the picture) until 1868.  Also at 15 Waterloo Place. Their first big success was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.   They also published: Thackeray, Darwin, Ruskin, Browning...

Group, Commerce, Journalism / Publishing, Literature

1 memorial
Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I

Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Born Greenwich Palace.  Succeeded her half-sister Queen Mary I. Reigned: 1553 - 1603.   Never married, no children, so followed by James I. Elizabeth I...

Person, Race Issues, Royalty, Seriously Famous

26 memorials
Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry

Born in Coventry. From an acting family her stage career started at age 8. When 17 she retired from the stage to marry artist G.F. Watts, 30 years her senior. Her desire for the stage was greater t...

Person, Theatre

4 memorials
Thanet House / Shaftesbury House

Thanet House / Shaftesbury House

Nos. 35-38 Aldersgate Street, built by Inigo Jones. From British History Online: “formerly the London residence of the Tuftons, Earls of Thanet. From them it passed into the family of that clever a...

Building, Property

1 memorial