Subject: J.B. Priestley
Died 14/8/1984, 41 years ago
Novelist, playwright and essayist. Wrote "When we are married" and "An Inspector Calls".
1 memorial
Memorial: Prisoners of War - WC1
Erected 14/8/2005, 20 years ago
WC1, Brunswick Square
Roger Robinson's pictures shows him at the planting ceremony, 14 August 2005. The tree is an English Oak.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Subject: Gunner Reginald George Henry Pullen
Born 14/8/1911, 114 years ago
Reginald George Henry Pullen was born on 14 August 1911 the eldest of the six children of George Henry Pullen (1889-1950) and Rose Mary Pullen née Bailey (1891-1980). The birth of George Pullen was...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Subject: 10th (Battersea) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
Ended 14/8/1918, 107 years ago
Founded by the mayor and borough of Battersea. They fought in France and Italy and later disbanded (probably in 1918).
1 memorial
Subject: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
Born 14/8/1473, 552 years ago
Born Bath, of royal blood, she survived the Wars of the Roses and was trusted by Henry VIII enough to be a governess to Mary, his daughter by Catherine of Aragon.  However when the king wanted a di...
2 memorials
Subject: William Ford Robinson Stanley
Died 14/8/1909, 116 years ago
Inventor, manufacturer and philanthropist. Born William Ford Robinson Stanley in Islington. He filed 78 patents for precision drawing, mathematical and surveying instruments, as well as telescopes....
Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Literature, Philanthropy
5 memorials
Subject: Colin Ward
Born 14/8/1924, 101 years ago
Anarchist writer. Born Wanstead. Served in the army in WW2, and worked as an architect 1952 - 61. Published on education, architecture and town planning. Guardian obit.
1 memorial
Subject: Leonard Woolf
Died 14/8/1969, 56 years ago
Author and publisher. Born Leonard Sidney Woolf in Kensington. After working in the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Civil Service, he returned to Britain where he met and married Virginia Stephen. Together ...
4 memorials
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