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Saint Ethelburga / Aethelburh

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Founder and Abbess of Barking. Probably used the manor in what is now Battersea Park. Sister of Saint Erkenwald. Died after 686.

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Saint Ethelburga / Aethelburh

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Millennium Cross at Battersea manor

The Batterea 'manor' at this time was an area mainly laid out as strip fields...

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Robert Smith

Robert Smith

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Holy Trinity church Stroud Green

Holy Trinity church Stroud Green

Designed by architect E. B. Ferrey in 1881. We think this is Edmund Benjamin Ferrey (1845–1900), son of Benjamin Ferrey who designed St Stephen's extension in Rochester Street, SW1. The church hall...

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Charles Williams

Charles Williams

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1 memorial
Ancient Order of Druids

Ancient Order of Druids

The Ancient Order of Druids sprung out of a surge of interest in the 18th century in all things related to ancient Britain, such as Stonehenge. Henry Hurle organised the Ancient Order along the li...

Group, Religion

2 memorials
Henry Thornton

Henry Thornton

Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Clapham. Successful banker. Good friends with his (indirect) cousin, William Wilberforce, prior to their marriages they shared a house bought by Thornton, Battersea Ri...

Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion

1 memorial

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The Wind in the Willows

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Written by Kenneth Grahame, much of it based on a series of letters to he wrote to his son.  First published October 1908.

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Upton Chapel, Barkham Terrace

Upton Chapel, Barkham Terrace

During the period 1785 -1862 a group of Particular Baptists used a house in what is now Burrell Street, SE11. They rebuilt it in 1801 and then in 1862 they had a new chapel built in Barkham Terrace...

Building, Religion

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John Thornton

John Thornton

Philanthropist who promoted Christian missionary work.  Died following an accident at Bath.  He is listed on the plaque as a menber of the Clapham Sect but it did not really get going until his dea...

Person, Commerce, Religion

1 memorial
17 Bruton Street

17 Bruton Street

The London home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore from 1920. The house from which their daughter married the Duke of York (the future King George VI) and the house to which the couple moved ju...

Building, Royalty

1 memorial
H. King
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1 memorial