This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Putney Society
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Edward Gibbon - SW15
Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on G...
Festing Road residents killed in WW1
The first quotation is adapted from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon The s...
Gavin Ewart
Gavin Ewart, 1916 - 1995, noted poet, FRSL, lived at Kenilworth Court. The P...
Hugh Jenkins
Lord Hugh Jenkins, 1908 - 2004, Putney MP, 1964- 1979, Minister for the Arts,...
J. R. Ackerley
J. R. Ackerley, 1896 - 1967, writer and literary editor, lived here, 1941 - 1...
Other Subjects
Hayes Literary Society
We can find little about this group but they were very active in 1992 re. Orwell.
Bostall Estate
In 1887 Bostall Farm was bought by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society and run to provide vegetables for the Co-op shops and food for the Society’s horses and pigs. By 1899 it had been decided t...
Hindle House Community / Hindle House War Memorial Project
Our plan shows the Hindle House estate with the central Community Centre surrounded by the residential blocks, shaded yellow. 197 flats built in 1938-9 as council flats. A WW2 bomb fell on 18 Septe...
All Saints Cemetery
Now known as Nunhead cemetery, it was one of the so-called 'magnificent seven' cemeteries, opened on the outskirts of London in the nineteenth century, to alleviate the overcrowding in parish buria...
Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group
This group was originally set up (2003 or earlier) to improve the Clapton Pond park and pond, and the surrounding area.
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Olaudah Equiano
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...
Serjeant Arthur Sidney Redgell
He was born as Alfred Sidney Redgell the eldest of the three children of Alfred Harper Redgell (1860-1910) and Harriet Annie Redgell née Jones (1866-1892). His birth was registered in the 2nd quart...
King Edward VII
Reigned: 1901 - 1910. Born and died at Buckingham Palace. Victoria's eldest son, born as Prince Albert and known as Bertie in the family, he took the name Edward when he became king, aged almost 60...
Robert Browning
Poet and playwright. Born Camberwell. His works include ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ and ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. He fell in love with Elizabeth Barrett and married her secretly because of her ...
Potters Bar rail crash - platform
EN6, Potters Bar Station, Between platforms 3 and 4
The plaque is between platforms 3 and 4.
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