Wimbledon Labour Hall Co-operative Society Limited was registered in 1921. We understand this formal organisation is also known as the William Morris Co-Operative Society and was formed to manage the William Morris House in Wimbledon.
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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
William Morris Co-Operative Society
William Morris Hall Financed by local subscription and erected by voluntary l...
26 Russell Street (previously Great Russel Street). Pubs History lists licencees from 1848 but it dates back to the 18th century at least. Closed by 1922.
We are grateful to Mike Keogh for giving us (via Facebook) some history of this society: Founded in 1984 by Robert Smith as the Ladywell Village Society, by 2015 it has been renamed the Ladywell So...
Claimed to be the first public building in South Norwood. When it opened there was little else here except for brickworks and farmland.
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...
From the magnificent Lost Hospitals of London: "In December 1914 Braeside was accepted by the War Office for use as an auxiliary military hospital. The Braeside V.A.D. Hospital opened in January 19...
Londonist writes: "The building was destroyed on Boxing Day 1937 and reopened in 1939. HMV's flagship store moved (slightly) to 150 Oxford Street, but the old address was reacquired in 2013, and re...
Author. Born John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, in Dorridge near Knowle, Warwickshire. Most of his novels are about terrestrial apocalypses (he disliked the term science-fiction). The best kn...
A line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army. It was amalgamated with the East Surrey Regiment, to form a single county regiment called the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment.
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