Used to meet at The Coal Hole in the Strand. In about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading founder member. Qualification for membership: being forbidden by your wife to sing in the bath. So the club choir probably didn't get many bookings, and not only due to the lack of sopranos.
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Wolf Club
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Fountain Tavern
In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the politic...
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Japan Society in Britain
From the picture source: "The Japan Society is the leading independent body in the United Kingdom dedicated to the enhancement of the British-Japanese relationship. With a history stretching back ...
2 memorials
Friends of Burgess Park
The Friends of Burgess Park are an association of people and other interested groups who are concerned to protect, promote and enhance an important, inner-city London park.
4 memorials
Brixton Society
From their website: "We help shape the future of Brixton by working to understand our history and built environment. To do this we hold regular meetings, lead heritage walks, and produce publicatio...
1 memorial
Highbury View Tenants Association
There are lots of housing associations in Highbury, but we can't find any specific information about a group with this name. The building on which the plaque is erected is occupied by a sheltered h...
1 memorial
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Kingston Spiritualist Church
Our photo of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle officiating at the church's opening comes from a previous incarnation (appropriate expression?) of the Kingston Spiritualist Church website. Now, 2020, there is ...
4 memorials
Anti-Slavery Society
First founded in Britain in 1823 as the 'Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions'. When slavery was abolished in British dominions the Society w...
1 memorial
United Nations
Founded after World War II, to replace the League of Nations. Its stated aims are: 'facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, hum...
4 memorials
King George Hospital, HMSO, Stamford Street
From the Survey of London and Ezitis (excellent) we learn that the five storey Cornwall House, built as warehouse for H.M. Stationery Office, was completed in the middle of WW1 and so was used unti...
1 memorial
St Olave Church, Silver Street
The first reference to a church on this site is to 'St Olave de Mukewellestrate' in the twelfth century,named for King Olave. Destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire and not rebuilt. Instead the parish...
2 memorials
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