A local conservation and amenity group founded in 1985 (following a campaign to save Old Westminster Library) to protect and represent the interests of residents and businesses in the 'village' of ancient Westminster (originally 'Thorney Island').
In 1985 this organisation campaigned successfully to save the old Westminster Public Library from demolition.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Thorney Island Society
Siegfried Sassoon, MC, poet, novelist, biographer, 1886-1967, lived and worke...
From the picture source website: " founded in 1957 by Duncan Sandys, a British politician, and the former son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill. It campaigned to make better places for people to live...
Hampstead historian. Born in Bradford. Attended Trinity College, Cambridge, was a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF in WW2, joined the BBC and rose to become head of the television script unit. Married...
Originally designed as the Westminster City Hall. It was associated with the Suffragettes, who started their marches to Parliament from here. 1940 Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer was assassinated at a ...
We are grateful to Mike Keogh for giving us (via Facebook) some history of this society: Founded in 1984 by Robert Smith as the Ladywell Village Society, by 2015 it has been renamed the Ladywell So...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them