Group    From 1862 

Putney Pest House Charity

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Set up in 1862 and still awarding small grants.

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Putney Pest House Charity

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Putney Pest House Charity

Putney Labourers Cottages Erected on land belonging to the Pest House Charity...

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S. L. Swaab

S. L. Swaab

This may not be our Swaab but, from Google books and TIB, we see that in 1864 Trubner published a 56 page book by S. L. Swaab entitled 'Fibrous Substances, indigenous and exotic : Their nature, var...

Person, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Felix Slade

Felix Slade

Collector of glass, books and engravings funded from the wealth he inherited from his father. Member of the Society of Antiquaries, he endowed 3 Slade Professorships of Fine Art at universities, an...

Person, Art, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir John Cass

Sir John Cass

Tory politician, slave trader and philanthropist. Date of birth unknown so we use his date of baptism, which took place at St Botolph, Aldgate. 1705 became a director of the Royal African Company w...

Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

2 memorials
Abbeyfield Society

Abbeyfield Society

A charity which provides sheltered housing  and care homes for elderly people, now known just as Abbeyfield. Founded by Richard Carr-Gomm, it owns and manages around 200 houses and 20 care homes (2...

Group, Philanthropy, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Bella Pearson-Kidd

Bella Pearson-Kidd

A family researcher refers to "Thomas Pearson and his wife Bella Goss Pearson née Brooman lived {at Nightingale Hall} until Thomas died in 1862 and then Bella remarried to a John Kidd and became Be...

Person, Philanthropy

1 memorial

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Imperial Hotel - statue 18

Imperial Hotel - statue 18

WC1, Russell Square

On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...

1 creator
Plinth for lost sculpture

Plinth for lost sculpture

E1, Chicksand Estate

See here for another sad empty plinth.

Salisbury Court Playhouse

Salisbury Court Playhouse

EC4, Dorset Rise

Site of the Salisbury Court Playhouse, 1629 - 1649. Corporation of the City of London

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator