A centre for theatre, poetry, film, happenings and arts of all kinds. Originally founded by Jim Haynes at 182 Drury Lane, it was influential in inspiring many similar centres in the UK and Europe. David Bowie founded a branch in the Three Tuns Public House, in Beckenham; the photograph shows him performing there.
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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Arts Lab
The plaque was originally unveiled on the 6th December 2001. It was taken dow...
Rotary clubs were founded to encourage fellowship amongst members of local business communities.
This 1893 map (extract here) shows the Station Hotel (P.H.) opposite the station but with no building behind. By 1933 this map show the PH building extending all the way back to Parkshot. The Crawd...
Conservation Society. Founded by Colonel Peter Flower and Lord Norwich.It has successfully opposed several unsympathetic building schemes in the area.
Group that works with local councils, residents, other amenity groups, traders, the police, the Boundary Commission, English Heritage, the Blackheath Joint Working Party and everyone else who can i...
Cordwainers are shoe-makers. The club celebrated its centenary in 2002.
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Herbert Thomas Long was born in 1897, a son of Frederick William Long (1863-1942) and Maria Long née Gilby (1868-1924). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1897 in the Wandsworth Registr...
Born Poland. His workshop was in Mitcham Goods Yard. 2015: Niedbala’s son, Marek, wrote to say that “When WWII started he was taken to a Russian work camp in Siberia then spent the duration in ...
Headquarters of the Social Democratic Federation, 1926 - 1937, founded by Henry Hyndman in 1884. London Borough of Islington Historic House
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