Writer and journalist. James Hall started the campaign to commemorate the first recording studio after he chanced upon it while researching his novel, The Industry Of Human Happiness, set in the early days of the music business.
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Anne Sharpley
Journalist. At art school in York in the 1940s she won a competition organised by Vogue which was the start of her career as a journalist. Investigative reporter on the Evening Standard in the 60s....
1 memorial
William Rees-Mogg
Editor of The Times 1967-81. Also High Sheriff of Somerset in the late 1970s. Chairman of the Arts Council in the 1980s. Vice-Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors. In 1988 he became Baron Rees-Mo...
1 memorial
Charles Prestwich Scott
Born Bath, Somerset. Editor and eventually proprietor of the Manchester Guardian. He was a Liberal member of parliament from 1895 to 1905 and embraced the causes of female suffrage and a Jewish nat...
1 memorial
The Sun
Launched to replace the Daily Herald. First printed at Bouverie Streeet, south of Fleet Street. The Sun's website refused to let us have a picture of their logo so we went elsewhere for it. Whic...
2 memorials
Allen Lane
Publisher. Born as Allen Lane Wlliams in Bristol. His uncle was John Lane, founder of the Bodley Head publishing house who took him into the business. By 1930 he had risen to the position of chairm...
1 memorial
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Sidney James Webb
Social researcher, economist and reformer, founder of the L.S.E., Born London. Early Socialist. He and his wife, Beatrice Webb, were, with George Bernard Shaw, early members of the Fabian Society...
2 memorials
William McMillan
SW3, Glebe Place, 63
A local resident said that this plaque (and the one next door, to Sir Alfred Munnings) is spurious and was erected by developers purely t...
1 subject commemorated
Octavia Hill - NW1
NW1, Ranston Street, 29/30
This charming street, still largely as built, was designed by Elijah Hoole. Most of it (5-11 and 21-37) is listed Grade II. It replaced t...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
The Round School
SW19, Camp Road, Wilberforce House
{Next to the Borough of Merton crest:} The Round School Built in 1758 as a charity school for fifty poor children, containing a school ro...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
1 memorial
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