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
London District of Fitzrovia
Area of London, bordered roughly by Euston Road to the north, Oxford Street to the south, Great Portland Street to the west and Gower Street to the east. Probably named after the Fitzroy Tavern pub...
Oranjehaven
A club for Dutchmen who had escaped their occupied country to join the Allied Forces. The Dutch Wikipedia has some information. The day of opening may be 2 rather than 6 (sources vary). The lite...
English and American Browning Society
Plenty of Browning Societies exist, but we can't find one with this specific name.
The inhabitants of Charlton
Charlton is an area of South-East London which still retains the feel of a village. Daniel Defoe described it as: 'A village famous, or rather infamous for the yearly collected rabble of mad-people...
Christmas cards
The first card was designed by John Horsley. The Mail has some pictures of early Christmas cards.
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