Original name was the Wells Charity, named after Chalybeate Well.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Wells & Campden Charity
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Alliance Assurance Company
This plaque records the fact that the buildings on the estate of the Wells &a...
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National Lottery
The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom. 2020: It is operated by Camelot Group. Some of its funds are distributed by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
Incorporated by royal charter in 1854, possibly on 7th April. Still operating in 1928.
War Savings Campaign
Second World War gives a good description of the story behind these plaques. Each year the fundraising was given a different focus: Communities would have a fund-raising committee which worked wi...
Sir John Morden
Born in London. He amassed a fortune in Turkey, and returning to Britain he joined the East India Company. The near loss of three of his ships prompted him to help merchants who were experiencing d...
Alfred Beit
Co-founder and funder (with Sir Julius Wernher) of the Royal School of Mines building. Born Hamburg, learnt the diamond trade in Amsterdam and went to Kimberley where he met Wernher and Cecil Rhod...
Person, Industry, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Africa, Germany, South Africa
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Hornsey Central Hospital war memorial - pier heads
N8, Park Road, 151, Hornsey Central Health Centre
We think these stones topped the gate piers at the street entrance to the memorial building.
Lord's cricket ground
Thomas Lord laid out his original cricket ground in Dorset Square in 1787. It was used mainly by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) which was founded there in the same year. Following a dispute over...
Downhills Primary School
Multi-national school with 94% of its pupils drawn from ethnic minorities and 70% taught English as an additional language. In 2012, the then Education Secretary Michael Gove cited that the school ...
Westminster City Council
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St John's in 1727 but it was still run as a single vestry. In 1855 the two parishes were reformed into the Westminster Distric...
French Protestant Church
Persecuted in France, about 50,000 Huguenots fled to Britain where Edward VI granted them asylum. The French Protestant Church of London was established by Royal Charter in 1550. It took over the T...
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