A community group with the aim of safeguarding the character, quality and integrity of the environment around Wandsworth.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Wandsworth Society
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Fishmongers' Almshouses
The gateway piers bear the inscriptions 'London County Council' on the left a...
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International Students House
ISH began life in 1917 as Student Movement House, a social centre opened at 32 Russell Square in memory of students who died in WW1. 1932 - 46 the warden of Student Movement House was Mary Trevelya...
1 memorial
Olave Baden-Powell
Born Olave Soames in Derbyshire. 1912 met Robert Baden-Powell on a trans-Atlantic ocean liner. They discovered that they shared a birthday, even if they were 32 years apart. This didn’t stop them m...
1 memorial
Royal Wimbledon Golf Club
Former members include Field Marshal Earl Haig, and future kings Edward VIII and George VI.
1 memorial
Polish Heritage Society
Exists to remember, record and propagate among the wider British public the contribution of Poles to our shared, common cultural and historical heritage within the United Kingdom.
4 memorials
BBC History Project
A 2016 BB2 television series called Black and British - A Forgotten History, traced the history of black people in Britain. Following on from this, a series of plaques are being erected around Brit...
3 memorials
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Animals War Memorial Dispensary - bronze frieze
NW6, Cambridge Avenue, 10
This bronze frieze shows a winged Victory holding wreaths and flanked by camels, mules, bullocks, horses, elephants, dogs and pigeons, al...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
LSHTM - Ball
WC1, Gower Street, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
This listed building was designed by Vernor Rees in 1926, one of the first steel-framed buildings ever erected. The balconies are decorat...
1 subject commemorated
St Benet Gracechurch
Name derives from the nearby hay (or grass) market. Lost in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren, demolished 1876.
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
403 memorials
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