Created in 1965 by the amalgamation of three former boroughs: Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham.
2007 - 10, Haringey Council ran its own historic plaques scheme to commemorate notable or famous local former residents.
Spelling: on creation this council chose the spelling Haringey, but it is not universally adopted by any means, and in the records Harringay is frequently used. We are as confused as anyone.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
London Borough of Haringey
Bernie Grant 1944 - 2000, trade unionist, council leader, member of parliamen...
Yes, there are two different (but correct) spellings of the name of the borou...
We've transcribed this inscription correctly and, being the pedants that we a...
David Greig, 1865 - 1952, founder of the chain of grocers and Hornsey schools...
A group of political radicals during the Civil War and the interregnum. Its origins lie in discussions within the New Model Army concerning soldiers' individual rights. They promoted: law reform,...
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
In 1961 Mayor of Clichy, France, and Vice-President of the General Council of the Seine.
Nazi official. Born Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich in Halle an der Saale. An architect of the Holocaust, he is regarded as one of the most extreme members of the Nazi regime, with even Hitler call...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia, Germany
At this meeting Karl Marx (attending as delegate of the Brussels Circle) and Frederick Engels (representing the Paris communities) were commissioned to write an action programme for the Communist L...
This plaque was removed when the house on which it was erected was demolished. A new plaque has been erected on the new house. We'd guess...
Established by Herzen in London 1853. See our plaque page for its various addresses around Bloomsbury. See the picture source for much more information.
Concept, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Russia
The 1892 erection must have been on the house in which Hill lived and died, Bartram House, demolished 1905. One wonders where the plaque ...
Pioneering environmentalist, ornithologist and internationalist, a founder of the World Wildlife Fund, initiator of the Jubilee Walkway. Father of Piers Nicholson, sundial designer. Born Ireland a...
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