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Bag o' Nails Club

Established in the 1930’s.  From their own website: A well-known basement music hangout of the 1930's.  Featured in Anthony Powell's novel 'A Dance to the Music of Time".  WW2 the club was used as ...

Place, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Music / songs

Baker Street Irregulars

The Baker Street Irregulars is a literary society dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Victorian world.  It is the oldest existing Sherlockian soci...

Group, Community / Clubs, History, Literature

Enid Balint

Psychoanalyst and welfare worker. Born Enid Flora Albu. She was involved in the organisation and administration of the Family Welfare Association and Citizens' Advice Bureaux. After her first marri...

Person, Community / Clubs, Medicine

Band of Mercy

Locally led organisations aimed at teaching young people about kindness to animals. They also worked to prevent cruelty to animals. Founded by Catherine Smithies as a furtherance of the temperance ...

Group, Community / Clubs, Animals

Randolph Baptiste

Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Co-founder of the Ebony Steelband in the late 1960s and founder of the Stardust Mas and Pan Band in 1983. Also a maker of carnival costumes. Deceas...

Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Music / songs

Selwyn Baptiste

Selwyn Baptiste was a Trinidad and Tobago-born pioneer of the introduction of the steel drum into Britain, forming the country's second steel band in 1967, and early organizer of London's Notting H...

Person, Community / Clubs, Education, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands

Barbican Horticultural Society

From their website: "Our Aims: Provide information and practical help to Barbican gardeners of all experience levels; Encourage the cultivation of plants in window-boxes, terraces and public spaces...

Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture

Barts Guild

There is a good history of the Guild on their history page, which is based on Ann Wickham’s book A Century of Service. We wonder if Ann Wickham, who designed this logo, was John Wickham's wife. Be...

Group, Benefactor, Community / Clubs, Medicine, Social Welfare

Friends of Battersea Park

Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture

Battersea Society

As so often happens, this group was formed to campaign against the proposed demolition of something, in this case Albert Bridge. Thankfully their campaign was successful and they have gone on to si...

Group, Community / Clubs, History