Erection date: 1928
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The North Islington Infant Welfare Centre was founded in 1913 by Mrs W. B. Keen who laid this stone in 1928.
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This garden was laid out in grateful memory of the founder who died on 30th April 1942.
We don't need to comment on the placement of the railings and the sensitivity of those responsible, do we?
N7, Manor Gardens, Manor Gardens Centre
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Florence Keen - 2 stone plaques
Founded by Florence Keen. 1983 renamed 'Manor Gardens Centre'.
Founder of the North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers i...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Florence Keen - 2 stone plaques
Florence Keen, 1868 - 1942, founder of North Islington School for Mothers, la...
The plaque refers to the men being overcome by fumes while "working in this building" but the tragedy took place in a sewer. Seems the p...
Alfred Reynolds, Hungarian poet and philosopher lived here 1980 - 1993.
What's the expression? Oh, yes: "Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in these plaques are the author's own and do not necessarily repres...
English Heritage Louis MacNeice, 1907 - 1963, poet, lived here, 1947 - 1952.
Yeo-Thomas lived here with his common-law wife, Barbara, from 1941 until about 1945, after which he lived in France.
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