Politician and journalist. Born Plymouth. Leader of the Labour party 1980-1983. Married to feminist film-maker and author, Jill Craigie (1911-1999), who appears with him in our picture.
His Wikipedia page gives details of his life. He died, aged 96 years, on 3 March 2010 and his funeral service took place on 15 March 2010 at Golders Green Crematorium, 62 Hoop Lane, London, NW11 7NL.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Michael Mackintosh Foot
The statue, by Ian Walters and unveiled (very appropriately) by Michael Foot,...
The quote “they went….other way” is a paraphrase of two lines from C. Day Lew...
Orwell lived here for 6 months in 1935 while he was working in the South End ...
We think we have found the right man. If so, Wikipedia informs that he was imprisoned in Kuwait in 2021.
Led the government of the under-age King Edward VI 1550-3, and on his death unsuccessfully attempted to install Lady Jane Grey and her husband (his son) Lord Guilford Dudley on the throne. Execute...
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1900-1945. Commander in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Chairman of the Savoy Group 1948 - 1984 and Managing Director 1941 - 1979. Lord Mayor of London in 1973. Born 62 Esmond Road, Acton into a theatrical family. Credentials: GBE CVO D Litt, JP. D...
Formed as a merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry. It carries out research, publishes journals, books and da...
The first steam railway to have a terminus in London. Originally it ran, largely on viaducts, between Deptford and Spa Road Bermondsey. By 1838 it had been extended at both ends: from Deptford to G...
The Picture source has a good description of this event. More at IanVisits and Diamond Geezer.
Created in 1965 by the amalgamation of three former boroughs: Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham. 2007 - 10, Haringey Council ran its own historic plaques scheme to commemorate notable or famous lo...
Founded 1837 with Sydney Hall in Pond Place. At Exciting we learn "In about 1906 they published a set of cards showing their original Sydney Hall and vacant site nearby at the southern apex of Bury...
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