Pollock's toy theatre shop
This was started by John Redington, selling printed sheets of characters and scenery for toy theatres. He ran it until his death when his family took over. 1877 his daughter Eliza married Benjamin ...
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Winnie the Pooh
Children's storybook character. The creation of A.A. Milne, inspired by the teddy bear, made in Acton, belonging to his son Christopher Robin. The toy was named 'Winnie' after a Canadian black bear...
2 memorials
Beatrix Potter
Artist, writer and sheep breeder. Born Helen Beatrix Potter at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington where she lived in the third floor nursery until she was in her thirties. She used her second name ...
Person, Art, Children, Animals, Literature, Seriously Famous
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Miss N. G. Price
Represented the Sunday School of the Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church in 1957.
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John Procter, the younger
Grandson of Mary and John Procter, died aged 9 months. We don't actually know that his surname was Procter since John had one daughter as well as three sons.
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Christopher David Pullen
Christopher Pullen, aged 12, died in Southdown House when a heavy steel fire door, lying off its hinges, propped up in the stairwell of a block of flats, fell on him causing fatal injuries. The doo...
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Punch and Judy
Punch's Puppet Show was first performed in England and witnessed by Samuel Pepys 1662, in Covent Garden. And still popular in 2015.
2 memorials
RAF apprentices and boy entrants
Royal Air Force apprentices and boy entrants, 1920 - 1993.
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Raine Foundation School
This school was founded in what is now Raine Street by Henry Raine in 1719, though the street was then known as Fawdon Lane, Charles Street. The school provided an education for local poor children...
3 memorials
Michael John Anthony Ravening
Killed in the WW2 Balham station bombing whilst using the deep level platforms as a bomb shelter. Aged 4.
War dead non-military, WW2
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