Mayor of Bermondsey 1929-1930 and then for a period of 3 terms during WW2: 1941-44.
Our photo shows a group of officials from the United States during their tour of the Civil Defence Services at Bermondsey, inspecting members of a decontamination squad. Starr is the one with the jewellery. The photo is dated 2 August 1941.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Albert Charles Starr
This garden is named after Mrs Ada Salter, a member of the Parks Committee of...
The inscription's date of birth for Ada contradicts that of reputable sources...
Charles Cheers Wakefield was born and raised in Liverpool. (Cheers was his mother's maiden name). Became an oil-broker, founding his own firm in 1899, C.C. Wakefield & Co. later Wakefield Oil C...
Person, Commerce, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in 2011.
Born Kent. Lord/Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitallers of England. As Lord High Treasurer he was responsible for collecting the poll tax. Bad timing for him since the Peasants Revolted, stormed ...
Born Harold Joseph Laski at Smedley House, Cheetham Hill, Manchester. His mother's maiden name was Frankenstein. He lectured at universities in Canada and America. Returning to Britain he became Pr...
Person, Education, Philosophy, Politics & Administration, Canada, USA
Politician and the first self-declared anarchist. Born and died France.
Before the 2012 Olympics started the Royal Mail committed to turn a red post box gold for each British Gold medal, Olympic and Paralympic. In the event this meant that over 100 boxes turned colour...
Reading left to right the five 4-storey houses in the picture are numbers 18 - 10. The picture source gives some detailed descriptions of the houses in their 1957 state and informs that in 1813 ou...
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. Our image comes from Wikipedia's photo captioned 'First West Ham Borough Council, 1886-7'. This 'Councillor R. Fielder' is p...
The quotation comes from one of the apocrypha, the Wisdom of Solomon, 3.2. The south face of this monument fronts the road and the insc...
One of the first family planning clinics, founded in 1968 in Charlotte Street, by Jean Medawar and David Pyke.
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