The memorial at the entrance to these fields tells how this playground came into existence. It is the only public space in London where adults are not allowed without children.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Coram's Fields
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Alfred Bestall
Author and illustrator. Born Alfred Edmeades Bestall in Mandalay, Burma. He served in the army during WW1, transporting troops in red double-decker buses. Following his studies at the L.C.C. Centra...
1 memorial
Robert Baden-Powell
Army officer and founder of the boy scouts and girl guides. Born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell at 6 Stanhope Street, Paddington. His mother changed the family name to Baden-Powell after her hus...
Person, Armed Forces, Children, Community / Clubs, Seriously Famous, Afghanistan, India, Kenya, South Africa
4 memorials
Thompson James Filmer
Thompson James Filmer is the 1st on the left of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 28 January 1900, the eighth of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...
2 memorials
Captain Thomas Coram
Born Lyme Regis, Dorset, where there is now a commemorative tower. Pioneer in the cause of child welfare. He became a Captain in the Merchant Navy trading between England and America. For several ...
3 memorials
RAF apprentices and boy entrants
Royal Air Force apprentices and boy entrants, 1920 - 1993.
1 memorial
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Matthew Wallace
Chairman of the City Lands Committee of the Corporation of London in July 1896. We think Matthew Wallace may be the same man but can't prove it.
1 memorial
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