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Putney Society

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Putney Society

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Edward Gibbon - SW15

Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on G...

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Festing Road residents killed in WW1

The first quotation is adapted from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon The s...

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Gavin Ewart

Gavin Ewart, 1916 - 1995, noted poet, FRSL, lived at Kenilworth Court. The P...

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Hugh Jenkins

Lord Hugh Jenkins, 1908 - 2004, Putney MP, 1964- 1979, Minister for the Arts,...

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J. R. Ackerley

J. R. Ackerley, 1896 - 1967, writer and literary editor, lived here, 1941 - 1...

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Other Subjects

Britten - Pears Foundation

Britten - Pears Foundation

From the website: "We promote the music of Benjamin Britten and his work with singer Peter Pears, and are based at the home they shared, The Red House in Aldeburgh."  Britten and Pears lived here f...

Group, Community / Clubs, Music / songs

1 memorial
Serbian Council of Great Britain

Serbian Council of Great Britain

An independent, non-profit, and non-political organisation established to promote the interests of the Serbian community in Great Britain. Founded in London after intensive consultations with the S...

Group, Community / Clubs, Nationalism, Serbia

1 memorial
Finchley Society

Finchley Society

Formed to protect, preserve and improve buildings, transport, roads and open spaces in Finchley and Friern Barnet and their environs, and to explore the history and the special features of the area...

Group, Community / Clubs

9 memorials
Ealing YMCA

Ealing YMCA

From West London YMCA : "Our foundations can be found in a prayer meeting held by 13 young people who gathered at 4 Grove Road, Ealing, on 28 July 1870, to inaugurate a local branch of YMCA. From t...

Group, Community / Clubs, Religion

1 memorial
Copers Cope Area Residents Association

Copers Cope Area Residents Association

Founded to protect and promote the local interests of residents of Central and Northern Beckenham.  

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

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St Mary Bothaw

St Mary Bothaw

'Bothaw' derived from 'boathouse', which makes sense when you remember that before the Embankment was built the Thames used be be a lot closer.  In existence by 1279, it was destroyed in the Great ...

Building, Religion

1 memorial
International Brigade

International Brigade

SE1, Jubilee Gardens

The quote “they went….other way” is a paraphrase of two lines from C. Day Lewis’s 1938 poem, The Volunteer. “Yet, Freedom… against the wi...

1 subject commemorated, 6 creators
Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

Poet, writer and school inspector.  Born at Laleham-on-Thames, Middlesex, son of Thomas Arnold. He won the Newdigate prize in 1843 with a poem on Cromwell. Appointed a lay inspector of schools in 1...

Person, Education, Poetry, France, Germany, Netherlands

2 memorials