Commanding officer of the Bloomsbury Rifles 1880–98.
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Lt-Col Samuel Richards
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Drill Hall - foundation stone
This corner stone was laid by Lt Colonel S. Richards, commanding Bloomsbury R...
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Sir Herbert Stewart
Promoted to Major-General after his service at Abu Klea, Sudan. Born at Sparsholt, Hampshire. Died travelling from Khartoum to Korti and was buried near the wells at Jakdul.
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Commander James White
Full name James Keaney White. Took command of HMS Peruvian in October 1814. Sailed to Bermuda and in June 1815 took Major Percy with the Waterloo Dispatch from Ostend to Broadstairs and on into Lon...
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War dead, WW1
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Sapper Samuel James Charman
Samuel James Charman was born in Beckenham, Kent, one of the nine children of David Charman (1838-1912) and Sarah Charman née Wilson (184-1920), whose birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 189...
War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
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Highbury boundary marker - Rosa Alba Mews
N5, Rosa Alba Mews, unknown
2020: Via Facebook Jay Cee told us that in their garden on Rosa Alba Mews they have a a metal shield with a lion and H in it. But no mor...
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Royal Holloway College
Founded as a women-only college by Thomas Holloway in 1879 on the Mount Lee Estate in Egham. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner called the original college building (now listed Grade 1) "the most ebullient Victo...
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Old Westminster Library - head 6 - Tennyson
SW1, Great Smith Street
Tennyson died October 1892, the same year that this building was 'erected' according to the foundation stone, though above the entrance 1...
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Highgate Cemetery - Fire - R11 - Pettit
N6, Swain's Lane, Highgate Cemetery
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
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