From the picture source website: "Our aim is to raise awareness of the history and culture of London's Jewish East End, to preserve what remains and record what has now gone."
Note: the symbol they use on their website, and copied here, is that on the building at 88 Whitechapel High Street, left behind by a Jewish newspaper. (We will publish it soon.)
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Jewish East End Celebration Society (JEECS)
Mendoza's burial site, "a spot nearby", is the Nuovo Sephardi cemetery in the...
Our colleague Alan Patient decoded JEECS into ‘Jewish East End Celebration So...
Sculptor of, and historian on, decorative ironwork. Also wrote on geology and botany and collected fossils. His company, based in Lambeth, did all the metal work at 2 Temple Place, inside and out, ...
"One tree for each memory, each memory for a new life, a life in each tree." From their website: "Ecomemoria is a project that merges ecology and memory to pay tribute to and celebrate the lives a...
Walter Hindes Godfrey was born on 2 August 1881, the eldest of the six children of Walter Scott Godfrey (1855-1936) and Gertrude Annie Godfrey née Rendall (1855-1922). His birth was registered in t...
Writer. His works include biographies of his father Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Darwin. Father of Aldous and Julian Huxley, the unidentified child in the photograph is presumably one of his sons.
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 20 November 1914, age 29, while serving in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. "As a stretcher bearer he spent the day rescuing many comrades, during this actio...
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Humphrey Geoffrey Brown was born on 4 July 1962 and died, aged 18 years, on 18 January 1981 in a fire at party being held at 439 New Cros...
The Borough of Lewisham was formed as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Deptford and Lewisham.
From the research published by the Seven Dials Trust: "Zaehnsdorfs was founded in London in 1841 by Joseh Zaehnsdorf. In 1862 he received an honourable mention at the London International Exhibitio...
Originally opened by the Baptists as the Ebenezer Chapel, with the adjoining building, (the manse), known as the Ebenezer Cottage. Within a few years the Baptists moved elsewhere, and the chapel wa...
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