Founded, as the Circus Fans' Association, in 1934 at Olympia, with the 'involvement and encouragement of Bertram Mills' Circus, to 'champion the cause of the circus in England, to right injustice, and to promote a good understanding between the circus and the public'. Our information comes from the National Fairground Archive.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Circus Friends Association
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Astley's Circus
The plaque is no longer there and actually looks like it was not intended to ...
Other Subjects
Britten - Pears Foundation
From the website: "We promote the music of Benjamin Britten and his work with singer Peter Pears, and are based at the home they shared, The Red House in Aldeburgh." Britten and Pears lived here f...
boundary crosses of old Croydon
There were 4 mediaeval manorial boundary crosses in Croydon: Hand Cross, Hern or Hurn Cross, Stay or Stake Cross, and one of unknown name. They marking out one hundred acres of the old town of Croy...
Garraways Coffee House
Garraway claimed to be the first to sell tea to the public, but not, as far as we can tell, at the Change Alley site, where he moved his coffee house after the Great Fire of 1666, replacing another...
Pickwick Bicycle Club
The oldest surviving cycling club in the world was founded at Downs Hotel, during the craze for the newly evolving bicycle, just 2 weeks after Charles Dickens died. The founding members honoured hi...
Queer Heritage
An appellation used on plaques erected by Sexual Avengers commemorating sites of gay events/interest.
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Thames Tunnel Boiler House
SE16, Tunnel Road
Boiler House, this building was originally used as a boiler house during the construction of Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames tunnel between...
Marta Krawiec
Dr Krawiec was killed by a left-turning HGV at the junction with Theobald’s Road and Southampton Row. She was aged 41 and worked as a paediatrician and and allergy expert at a clinic in Clapham and...
T. S. Eliot - WC1
WC1, Russell Square, 23-24
Friends of Russell Square Newsletter no 1 contains a lovely story about Philip Feril Renault Saillard (1839-1916) who lived in this house...
National Portrait Gallery - Walpole
WC2, Charing Cross Road
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
Tower Liberty
EC3, Tower Hill, Wakefield Gardens
We normally rotate our memorial pictures as necessary to make sure the statues are standing upright and the plaques can be read without f...