Group    From 1931 

Pilgrim Trust

Categories: Benefactor

From their website: "Our aim is to preserve and promote Britain’s historical and intellectual assets and to provide assistance to vulnerable members of society."

Edward Stephen Harkness provided the Trust with an endowment of £2m and a very vague specification for its use.

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Pilgrim Trust

Creations i

Silver Jubilee - Montague Close

This monument, built with the aid of funds donated by the Pilgrim Trust, was ...

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Action for Children

Action for Children

National children's charity. Founded by the Reverend Thomas Bowman Stephenson as 'The Children's Home'. Renamed 'National Children's Home' and adopted its present name in 2008. It originally provid...

Group, Benefactor, Children

2 memorials
Brixton Bomb Victims Appeal Committee

Brixton Bomb Victims Appeal Committee

Formed to assist victims of the Brixton nail bomb.

Group, Benefactor, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

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Magic Circle

Magic Circle

W1, Wardour Street, 17, Morden & Lea

The Magic Circle was founded on this site at Pinoli's Restaurant by twenty-three magicians on July 1st 1905. British Plaque Trust

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
World War 1

World War 1

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...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

384 memorials
friends of Alice Drakoules

friends of Alice Drakoules

Erected the bird bath in 1937.

Group, Friend / family

1 memorial
Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey

Married to Lord Guilford Dudley.  Her husband’s father persuaded the dying Edward VI to declare his two sisters Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate, which left Jane, on Edward's death, the queen.  Mary...

Person, Execution, Royalty, Seriously Famous

4 memorials
Albany School, Bell Lane

Albany School, Bell Lane

old Albany School in Bell Lane, Enfield in 2014.

Place, Education

1 memorial