The Borough of Lewisham was formed as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Deptford and Lewisham.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Lewisham Borough Council
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Battle of Lewisham - Plaque
Remembering the Battle of Lewisham. Thousands united here against racism and ...
David Jones
David Jones CH, 1895 - 1974, artist, soldier, poet, lived at this address 189...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - SE23
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 - 1945, theologian and pastor, lived here, 1933 - 1...
Edward Owen Greening
Edward Owen Greening, 1836 - 1923, co-operator and social reformer, lived in ...
Other Subjects
William Clayton, Baron Sundon
Baptised November 1671 in Newmarket. Treasury official and MP 1716-52. Bought the estates of Sundon in Ardagh, Ireland in 1716 and was raised to the Peerage of Ireland in 1735 as Baron Sundon.
1 memorial
Henry Laurens
American statesman. South Carolina planter and slave owner. 1783 negotiator for the Treaty of Paris.
1 memorial
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne
Conservative politician. Wikipedia has the wonderful phrase "In 1947, he succeeded his father in the marquessate...".
1 memorial
1 memorial
Jean Scott
Founder of The Finchley Society. Andrew Behan found their website very informative: Jean Leslie Scott, The Finchley Society’s founder, was born on 21 March 1921 and lived in Finchley since her ch...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Science
1 memorial
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Leyton Town Hall (second)
There are two adjacent buildings on High Road Leyton, both of which have served as the Town Hall. The first was the yellow brick building on the corner with Ruckholt Road. When this was outgrown th...
1 memorial
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
The fourth theatre on the site since restoration times, this is the oldest theatre in use in London. In 1745 the National Anthem had its first public performance here, in an earlier building.
2 memorials
Sir (Charles) Vyner Brooke
Third and last white Rajah of Sarawak. Born Albemarle Street. Died at his flat at 13 Albion Street, Paddington. Sarawak is on the Island of Borneo. In 1841 Sarawak was proving troublesome and ...
1 memorial
Westminster City Council
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St John's in 1727 but it was still run as a single vestry. In 1855 the two parishes were reformed into the Westminster Distric...
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F. E. Smith, Earl Birkenhead
Lawyer and politician. Born Frederick Edwin Smith in Pilgrim Street, Birkenhead. Called to the bar in 1899 and entered parliament in 1906. He became Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor. Successful...
1 memorial
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