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Provident Life Office

Provident Life Office

A savings bank launched by Barber Beaumont in 1806. We think this went on to become part of Friends Provident. Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial
League of coloured peoples

League of coloured peoples

Founded by Doctor Harold Moody. A civil-rights organisation with the aim of racial equality around the world. Although its primary purpose was black rights in Britain, it was also involved in other...

Group, Community / Clubs, Race Issues

1 memorial
Peake Estates Ltd

Peake Estates Ltd

Real estate managers. According to the Companies House website this a private limited company that was incorporated on 25 March 1935. Their current (2024) registered office address is 172 Old Milto...

Group, Property

1 memorial
Valentine Poole Trust

Valentine Poole Trust

A charity founded when Valentine Poole left various properties he owned to the parishioners of Chipping Barnet, where he was born. It now provides relief to the needy and poor. We can find nothing...

Group, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Island Records

Island Records

Record company. Founded by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica. In 1989 it was sold to PolyGram, which was itself taken over by Universal Music Group. In the early days it ...

Group, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
St George West London Ltd.

St George West London Ltd.

Property developers within the Barclay Group.

Group, Property

1 memorial
Charter Quay Development

Charter Quay Development

A residential and commercial development in Kingston upon Thames. It  comprises housing, restaurants, bars and The Rose Theatre.

Group, Property

1 memorial
Salmon & Gluckstein

Salmon & Gluckstein

Tobacco retailer which become the largest tobacco sellers in the UK, with over 140 retail outlets. Samuel Gluckstein (1821-73) was born in Rheinberg, Prussia (now Germany) on 4 January 1821, the s...

Group, Commerce

1 memorial
Burial remains from All Saints Church Poplar

Burial remains from All Saints Church Poplar

In 2010 the remains of 1,356 paupers, cholera victims and foreign sailors were removed from the graveyard of All Saints Church (on the west side of Newby Place between the rectory and East India Ro...

Group, Property

1 memorial
Leyton Histories

Leyton Histories

We cannot find any group that uses this name, so believe that the erectors are The Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society.

Group, History

1 memorial
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