Group    From 1965 

Waltham Forest Council

Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.

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Waltham Forest Council

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Alliott Verdon Roe - E17 (1)

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Chingford Mount Cemetery

Chingford Mount Cemetery Developed in 1884 by the Abney Park Cemetery Company...

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Cunard / Broadwest Film Studio

The Cunard / Broadwest Film Studio, 1914 - 1921. On this site stood one of th...

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Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn the British singer, songwriter, producer and composer, best know...

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Dave Shepherd

Dave Shepherd, Britain's acclaimed jazz clarinettist and bandleader, was born...

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Mrs E. McCaffrey

Mrs E. McCaffrey

Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1918-1942. Serving Sister in the Order of St John.

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Swiss Embassy

Swiss Embassy

Rebuilt on its traditional site, 1970.

Place, Politics & Administration, Switzerland

1 memorial
HMS Pembroke V

HMS Pembroke V

Code name of a Ministry of Defence site in Eastcote, West London. Also known as RAF Eastcote, RAF Lime Grove and Outstation Eastcote. In WW2 the government constructed a military hospital here in p...

Place, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Samuel Garcia Asher

Samuel Garcia Asher

Samuel Garcia Asher was born about 1868 in Russell Square, Bloomsbury. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1868 in the St Giles registration district and his parents were Dr Asher Asher ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Harvey Hinds

Harvey Hinds

Harvey William Hinds, politician, clergyman and youth campaigner. Labour Southwark Councillor. Champion of Burgess Park and education, leisure and recreation. Elected to the Greater London Council ...

Person, Children, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration, Religion

1 memorial

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Greater London Council

Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone.  On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...

Group, Politics & Administration

241 memorials
Prince Michael Duke of Kent

Prince Michael Duke of Kent

Grandson of King George V and son of George, Duke of Kent. Born Michael George Charles Franklin at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire. Married to Princess Michael. He helps out with some royal duties, ...

Person, Commerce, Royalty

5 memorials
St Olave Hart Street - church

St Olave Hart Street - church

Survived the Great Fire but was so badly damaged in WW2 that for the period 1948 - 54 the congregation used a temporary church in Mark Street. Samuel Pepys and his wife Elizabeth are buried here a...

Building, Religion

3 memorials
dissolution of the monasteries

dissolution of the monasteries

In 1534, for reasons not only to do with his marital situation, Henry VIII broke with Rome, the Pope and the Catholic Church. At the time the Catholic monasteries (and abbeys, priories, convents an...

Event, Politics & Administration, Property, Religion, Royalty

4 memorials
Artillery Gardens in Spitalfields

Artillery Gardens in Spitalfields

From Bowyers Company: "The word 'artillery' comes from the French 'arc tirer', to draw a bow, and the Artillery Company (later to become the Honourable Artillery Company) was originally a company o...

Place, Armed Forces

1 memorial