Conservation group. Co-founded by two local residents, architect Tom Affleck Greeves and Harry Taylor, following the demolition of some historic houses and unsympathetic developments in the neighbourhood. They were supported by poet and conservation campaigner Sir John Betjeman.
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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Bedford Park Society
On the back of the panel 8 Bedford Park men are featured, each with a paragra...
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Bedford Park Society
Alec Dickson, 1914 - 1994, founder VSO &Â CSV, lived and died here. Bedfor...
Beryl Brownsword, architect & conservationist, lived here, 1922 - 2007. B...
T.A. Greeves, 1917 - 1997, architect & artist co-founder of the Bedford P...
John Butler Yeats 1839 - 1922 artist W.B. Yeats 1865 - 1939 poet Jack B. Yeat...
1856 Reverend Charles Fuge Lowder commenced work on the mission in Wapping (named for their church St George's-in-the-East). Initially it was met with hostility, but in time it came to play an impo...
Peter Cook said this was modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War". Lenny Bruce, Barry Humphries, ...
It occupied the building that once was Bow Public Library. We can find find no further information about its function, nor who Vernon was.
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