General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union, 1940 until his death. Born Warwickshire. Died Leicester where he had been addressing a May Day rally.
Alamy have a lovely photo of Deakin.
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Arthur Deakin, CH, CBE
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Arthur Deakin
Arthur Deakin House This block was built in 1956 by Stepney Borough Council a...
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Arthur Deakin, CH, CBE
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Ernest Bevin bust
Unveiled by Bermondsey Mayor Geoghegan, Chairman of the statue committee. The...
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Councillor George Hickling
Mayor of St Pancras 1905 - 6. Kentish Towner refers to "a coal merchants George Hickling & Co, then to be found on the corner of Regis Rd." in the late 1800s. Seems likely to be the same man.
1 memorial
Richard Joseph Dodson
Churchwarden of Christ Church Spitalfields in 1877. Potato salesman operating from 28-29 Crispin Street, in partnership with Joseph Dexter until 1864 when the partnership was ended and Dodson carri...
1 memorial
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, France
8 memorials
S. H. Vilven
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1893-1925. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Harold P. Bastie, Alderman
Chairman Highways Committee. Andrew Behan researched Bastie: Harold Percival Doughty Bastie was born on 24 February 1913 and his birth was registered in Edmonton, Middlesex. He was the second chil...
1 memorial
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Great Exhibition - Coalbrookdale Gates
SW7, South Carriage Drive
From Royal Parks: "The gates were designed by Charles Crookes. Each of the cast iron gates was cast in one piece. Their finials, supporti...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Soho Club and Home for Working Girls
W1, Greek Street, 60
This stone is above the door at the 1st floor. The Soho Club and Home for Working Girls was founded here by Maude Stanley. Clearly she...
1 subject commemorated
Black Prince Road ceramics - plaque 11
SE11, Black Prince Road, Tunnel underneath railway bridge
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
1 subject commemorated
Sacred Heart of Jesus
N7, Eden Grove, Sacred Heart of Jesus
To the left of this church is a Victorian school building. High up on its wall is a large, flat, but sort of secret, Christian cross, cre...
War dead | WW1
35 subjects commemorated
35 subjects commemorated
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