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Royal Carriage Department

The Royal Brass Foundry in Woolwich was already producing carriages as well as guns but in 1803-5 a building dedicated to carriages was constructed - see picture.  John's Military History, the sour...

Group, Craft / Design

Guild and School of Handicraft

Founded by C. R. Ashbee together with an evening school.   Initially opened in Toynbee Hall then moved to the the top floor of the next-door warehouse, 34 Commercial Street.  In 1890-1 the workshop...

Group, Craft / Design

Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents Association

The association is a watchdog for the welfare of Hampstead Garden Suburb and acts as a strong pressure group. It conveys the views of its members to the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust, to the Boroug...

Group, Community / Clubs

Christian Science

Religious sect founded in America by Mary Baker Eddy. Adherents subscribe to a form of philosophical idealism, believing that reality is purely spiritual and the material world an illusion. This in...

Group, Religion, USA

Will Day's family

Group, Benefactor, Friend / family

Anima Masonic Lodge

Group, Cinema, Philanthropy

Film London

Group, Cinema

Westminster School Society

A charity administered by a council of Old Westminsters that provides financial assistance to Westminster School for the benefit of current pupils.

Group, Benefactor, Education

Lewisham Locality Fund

Fund provided by Lewisham Council for groups and organisations who can deliver projects which improve the Lewisham Central area.

Group, Community / Clubs

Infants Hospital

From the always useful Lost Hospitals of London: "The St Francis Hospital for Infants was founded in a small house in Hampstead {6 Denning Road} in 1903 by Helen Levis, {first} wife of the industri...

Group, Children, Medicine