Group    From 1965 

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. It was originally planned to call it just Kensington, but Chelsea was added after local protests.

The vestries of Kensington and of Chelsea were precursors to this body.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Avondale Park

This park was acquired and laid out by the Vestry of Kensington with financia...

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Dovehouse Green - blue plaques

{Top plaque:} To celebrate the silver jubilee of Elizabeth II 1952-1977 and ...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Abbotsbury Gate

Abbotsbury Gate - Holland Park Made possible by the bequest of the late Miss ...

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Albert Bridge - troops

In 1831 the Broughton Suspension Bridge collapsed as a troop of 74 men marche...

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Arthur Stanley Wint

Arthur Stanley Wint 1920 - 1992, RAF pilot,doctor & diplomat, gold medal ...

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Boy David

Commissioned to create a WW1 memorial to the Machine Gun Corps Derwent Wood p...

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Campden Hill Square

Campden Hill Square was laid out by Joshua Flesher Hanson in 1826. Gates and ...

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Linda Perham

Linda Perham

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Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Thomas Brushfield

Thomas Brushfield

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Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Bob Hopwood

Bob Hopwood

Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
S. R. Pearce

S. R. Pearce

1893 Superintendent of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Sunday School.

Person, Education, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
London Borough of Hounslow

London Borough of Hounslow

Formed under the London Government Act of 1963, by the merger of the former Brentford and Chiswick Urban District, Feltham Urban District and the Heston and Isleworth Urban District.

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5 memorials

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2 subjects commemorated
William Offwood

William Offwood

From the parish of St Thomas in Bethnal Green and killed in WW1, a rifleman aged 37.

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
N. Gayler
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1 memorial
Miss Marple

Miss Marple

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Fiction, Fictional

1 memorial