From the Irish Times: "In the grim 1950s, 40,000 people left Ireland every year to emigrate to Britain. They built the roads and repaired the bombed out buildings of post-war Britain. They staffed the hospitals, the factories and the railways of a booming country while the economy stagnated at Ireland. It is estimated that half of all Irish people born in the 1930s emigrated, the large majority to Britain."
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Irish immigrants
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The Forgotten Irish
The Forgotten Irish In commemoration of that generation of post World War II ...
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Lady Isabella Somerset
President of the British Women's Temperance Association , 1890 - 1903, founded of the first industrial farm for inebriate women and set up a home for training workhouse children. Born in London as...
1 memorial
Pulford Street Site Committee
The Pulford Street Site Fund was responsible for raising the resources necessary, mainly from Westminster residents, with grants from the Ministry of Health and Westminster Council, to build the Ta...
2 memorials
Mr John Carr
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
1 memorial
Sutton Dwellings
In 1917 The Church Missionary Society sold its college in Upper Street and the building was replaced with Sutton's model dwellings.
1 memorial
Sir John Simon
Surgeon and public health officer. Born City of London. His name is of French origin which is worth knowing for pronunciation purposes. 1848 appointed the first Medical Officer of Health for London...
2 memorials
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