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Hoxton Hall

Built 1863 as Mortimer's Music hall. 1866 MacDonald took it over but in 1871 following complaints it lost its performance licence. Bought in 1879 by rich Quaker philanthropist William Isaac Palmer (of Huntley and Palmer biscuits) for the Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Mission. 1893 in his will Palmer left the hall to the Quaker Bedford Institute. 1910 the hall was extended and became an Institute, used for boys and girls clubs. It is now used as a community centre.

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Hoxton Hall

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Hoxton Hall

Hoxton Hall. Built 1863 as a music hall. Owned since 1893 by Bedford Institu...

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Kingswood House

Kingswood House

A Grade II listed building formerly known as Kings Coppice. It may have taken its name from Edward King who was a tenant of Dulwich manor in the sixteenth century. Between 1811 and 1814, William Vi...

Building, Community / Clubs, Property

1 memorial
Hindle House Community / Hindle House War Memorial Project

Hindle House Community / Hindle House War Memorial Project

Our plan shows the Hindle House estate with the central Community Centre surrounded by the residential blocks, shaded yellow. 197 flats built in 1938-9 as council flats. A WW2 bomb fell on 18 Septe...

Group, Community / Clubs

2 memorials
Luton African Caribbean Community Development Forum

Luton African Caribbean Community Development Forum

Apart from their address, we can find no other information about this group.

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Prague

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Prague

Established as a non-profit organisation, it was originally set up to promote the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe and to encourage and promote old and new artistic interpretations of his works. I...

Group, Community / Clubs, Literature, Czechoslovakia

3 memorials
London Cornish Association

London Cornish Association

A non-political, non-sectarian, cultural and social organisation which promotes and fosters fellowship and goodwill among Cornish people in London and elsewhere.

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

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Lords Meade

Lords Meade

The picture source says "This is an 1865 photo of the house "Lord's Meade". John Eliot and Maria Howard moved there on 12th October 1830 and lived there all their lives."

Building, Property

1 memorial
London and Croydon Railway

London and Croydon Railway

It ran from London Bridge to central Croydon, partly following the route of the defunct Croydon Canal. It eventually merged with other railways to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway,...

Place, Transport

1 memorial
Westminster Hall - R101

Westminster Hall - R101

SW1, St Margaret Street, Westminster Hall

Plaque unveiled by Angela Smith Baroness Smith of Basildon, together with members of the Airship Heritage Trust. Wikipedia has this plaq...

2 subjects commemorated
World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

402 memorials
John Thomas

John Thomas

Born Gloucestershire.  A prolific Victorian sculptor. The splendid Speel gives this list of other works in London: pediment of Paddington Station Great Western Hotel; decorative work on the piers o...

Person, Sculpture

4 memorials