From their website: "The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation is a non-profit, volunteer organization. The purpose of the Society is to identify and recognize sites of American Jewish Historical interest. The Society sponsors and promotes programs of local and national historic interest. Cooperating with local Historical Societies, Communities, Churches and Synagogues, the Society encourages dialogue and interactive recognition of the commonality of the American Experience."
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Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
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Barnett Lewis
At 9 Brooke Road, lived Air Raid Warden Barnett Lewis GM (George Medal) Jewis...
Leopold Marks
Jewish cryptographer, Leopold (Leo) Samuel Marks, MBE, lived in flat 410 Park...
Operation Mincemeat
The Biblical quotation draws attention to the secrecy which was essential to ...
Rathbone Street WW2 fire station - Harry Errington
On the night of 17th September 1940 during The Blitz, a London Auxiliary Fire...
Other Subjects
Tassaduq Ahmed
Born in Assam. He came to London in 1952, founded the Pakistan Welfare Association, and became a leading organiser of the fledgling Bengali language movement. He set up Desher Dak (Call To Land), t...
Person, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Journalism / Publishing, Indian Sub-continent
1 memorial
Carlton Mansions Housing Co-Operative
A long-running squat. News of evictions prompted some interviews with residents. In 2013 Brixton Blog reported: "Many are professional artists; others work in jobs ranging from retail to community ...
2 memorials
Anglo-Chilean Society
Fromed at the Chilean Embassy at 3 Hamilton Place. In 2008 The British Chilean Chamber of Commerce based in London merged with The Anglo Chilean Society.
1 memorial
Southgate Village Hall
We found the Village Hall on this 1897 map. Southgate Green Association has: "... the site of the village hall, which in 1882 housed the early meetings of the Southgate Local Board of Health, pred...
1 memorial
Rose and Crown, Wimbledon
From Wimbledon Heritage Map: "part 17C, late 18C early 19C public house, note multi pane sash windows; recently sympathetically extended".
1 memorial
Previously viewed
Jamestown Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia
We don't think this is connected to the Jamestown Foundation based in Washington DC. We think it must be/have been a group interested in promoting the history of the early settlement of America.
1 memorial
Royal Coburg Theatre / Royal Victoria Theatre / Old Vic
This theatre designed by the German architect Rudolphe Cabanel, began life in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre under the patronage of Princess Charlotte of Wales and her husband Prince Leopold of C...
7 memorials
all those injured and affected by the Docklands bomb
Two were killed and 39 people were injured by the Canary Wharf IRA bomb.
1 memorial
South Place Ethical Society / Conway Hall Ethical Society
Possibly the oldest surviving free thought organisation in the world, and the only remaining Ethical society in the UK. Originated as a religious group, allied to the Baptists. By 1793 they had the...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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