Hearts of Oak Benefit Society
AD 1888
W1, Rathbone Street
This was a rear entrance to the offices of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society at 15-17 Charlotte Street, now occupied by the Charlotte Street Hotel. This eBay item shows the Charlotte Street building in 1942.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hearts of Oak Benefit Society - W1
National Archives gives: "It was on 20th June 1842 that twelve members of a P...
John William Waterhouse, 1849 - 1917, painter, lived here, 1900-1917. English Heritage
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Site of St Leonard’s Church, destroyed in the Great Fire, 1666. The Corporation of the City of London
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Reigned: 1660 - 1685. Born at St James's Palace. The son of the beheaded Charles I, he was the king "restored" to the throne after the civil war. Married Catherine of Braganza in 1662 but she prod...
Died while fighting a fire with Bill Faust, see there for details. Born in north-west Surrey. Aged 27, Meere had only completed his basic training a few months before.
Died with Adam Meere in a fire in Bethnal Green, which started in the basement of a children's clothes shop, Sohan and Sons, and spread to the flat above. Operating out of Whitechapel Fire Station,...
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