Betty Knight
Campaigner. Born in Finsbury. In 1996 she was the driving force behind the establishment of the Spa Green Management Organisation, a tenant-run group which looks after this council estate.
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Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor
An exclusive club which only knights can join. Founded in 1908 to enable a joint opposition to the Walker Trustees who were enforcing their entitlement to collect monies from newly created Knights...
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Jeffrey S. Kruger
Entertainment business executive. Born Jeffrey Sonny Krugerkoff. He founded the Flamingo Club in London's West End. Died in Miami, Florida.
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Labour Party
Political party founded by Keir Hardie and others.
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Ladywell Assembly
An initiative set up by volunteers to promote the activities of local groups, and to cover the issues raised at the local assembly, including parking, traffic congestion, pollution and planning iss...
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Ladywell (Village) Society
We are grateful to Mike Keogh for giving us (via Facebook) some history of this society: Founded in 1984 by Robert Smith as the Ladywell Village Society, by 2015 it has been renamed the Ladywell So...
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Landsbergs boy scouts
"Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years" 1984, Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney provides: "Already in the 1890s, there had been increasing interest in what would now be called yout...
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Rhaune Laslett-O'Brien
Born as Freda Pulverness in Stepney but lived most of her life in and around West London. After WW2 the housing conditions, the poverty and the racial mix in Notting Hill brought out her skills as...
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Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
Founded by the parents of Stephen Lawrence to ensure that future generations of young people would enjoy the opportunities that were denied to him.
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League of coloured peoples
Founded by Doctor Harold Moody. A civil-rights organisation with the aim of racial equality around the world. Although its primary purpose was black rights in Britain, it was also involved in other...
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