This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Trade Unionists
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Hanbury Hall - blue oval plaque
This plaque has a shortened version of the text on the old white plaque.
Hanbury Hall - white plaque - removed
Christ Church Hall Built in 1719 as a French Hugeonot {sic} church it stood b...
Trade Union sculpture
From TUC: "The front of the building is dominated by a bronze sculpture by Be...
Other Subjects
Royal Docks
The Royal Docks is the area, including the three docks – the Royal Victoria (1855), the Royal Albert (1880) and the King George V (1921), collectively forming the largest enclosed docks in the worl...
Matchgirls' strike
A strike of the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant and May Factory. Annie Besant had published an article about the poor working conditions at the factory, 'White Slavery in London'. Thi...
Brilliant Sign Company
Signage company. It was named after their concept called the 'brilliant letter'. This comprised a pressed copper sheet with a v-shaped cross section so as to imitate the classic incised wooden fasc...
Peter Dobson Allen
Peter Dobson Allen was born on 4 January 1931, the son of Fred Allen (1902-1957) and Ethel Allen née Dobson (1903-1990). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1931 in the Dewsbury registra...
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Keith Blakelock
Beaten and stabbed to death by a mob during large scale rioting. Posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. From an article in the Guardian: Constables Blakelock and Coombes were attacked ...
Stanley School
2012 and the school is a primary school only, and in our experience primary schools tend not to erect memorials to their "old boys". But we found, at Martin Watson, "...when I started school in 19...
Oliver Wheatley
For some more of his work in London see the ever excellent Ornamental Passions.
Helene "Lenchen" Demuth (or Helena)
Housekeeper for Jenny and Karl Marx. Born Germany. Her date of birth is also sometimes given as 31 December. She was much more than a housekeeper. As a girl she was adopted into Jenny's family ...
Doctor John Fry - Guy's Hospital
SE1, Guy's Hospital, The Colonnade
Dr John Fry, 1922 - 1994, pioneering family doctor, world renowned researcher in primary care, & innovator in evidence based medicine...
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