Founded by Elizabeth Finn, now called Elizabeth Finn Care.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association
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Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association
Founded here by Elizabeth and Constance Finn, the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid...
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Olive Morris
Activist and community leader. Born in St Catherine, Jamaica, and moved to Britain at the age of nine. She was a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in...
Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Caribbean Islands
2 memorials
Matchgirls' strike
A strike of the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant and May Factory. Annie Besant had published an article about the poor working conditions at the factory, 'White Slavery in London'. Thi...
5 memorials
Justice for Lai Dai Han
This group campaigns for an independent UN-led investigation into allegations of widespread sexual violence by South Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War. The group commissioned the Mother and Ch...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Hospital of St Anthony
Henry III granted this site to the brotherhood of St. Anthony of Vienna to set up a hospital, which over time consisted of almshouses for the poor, a church and a school. After the dissolution of t...
1 memorial
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Bowler plaque - Ship in Bottle
E1, Commercial Street, 76
We failed to find this in Dec-Jan 2017, even with the exact address. It shows a ship inside a bottle. This cast-iron roundel is one of 22...
1 creator
Silver Jubilee - Montague Close
SE1, Montague Close
2021: The granite stones remain but all these plaques are gone.
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Tower Hamlets Council
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middlesex. This division was a liberty, i.e. it was an autonomous area under the jurisdiction of the Constable of the Tower of...
49 memorials
Beresford Pite
N1, Thornhill Square, Islington West Library
The text we have transcribed is off a very dull plaque on this wall near the ground. The photograph shows the name plaque, high on the bu...
4 creators
St Augustine statue
EC2, Austin Friars, Augustine House, 6a
Note the bee on the wall below his feet. Bees are associated with Saint Ambrose who had a notable influence on Augustine. That's the only...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator