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Committee and Friends of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union

Committee and Friends of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union

is a Christian charity based in London which educates children and young people about drug and alcohol abuse.

Local meetings started in Leeds with the objective to teach children the importance and principles of sobriety and teetotalism. in 1847 and a formal organisation was established in 1855 with the name The United Kingdom Band of Hope Union.

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Committee and Friends of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union

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Joseph Payne fountain - NW1

In memory of Joseph Payne, Esq., deputy assistant judge, a zealous total abst...

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Mary Tourtel

Mary Tourtel

Author and artist. Born Mary Caldwell. She studied art and became a children's book illustrator. Her husband Herbert Tourtel, was news editor of the Daily Express. In 1920 the newspaper was looking...

Person, Art, Children, Literature

1 memorial
Oxford and St George’s Club / St George’s Settlement

Oxford and St George’s Club / St George’s Settlement

From University of Southampton: "Based in a disused hostel on 125 Cannon Street Road, the Oxford and St George’s Club began in 1914 with a membership of 25 boys. The Club got its name from Basil’s ...

Group, Children, Community / Clubs, Education

2 memorials
Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton

Children's writer. Born Enid Mary Blyton at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich. Best known for creating the character of Little Noddy and the 'Famous Five' stories. Her works have been translated into...

Person, Children, Literature, Race Issues, Seriously Famous

4 memorials
Norwood Jewish Orphanage

Norwood Jewish Orphanage

Its origins go back to 1807 when Abraham and Benjamin Goldsmid opened a Jews' Hospital in the Mile End Road. It was not a hospital in the modern sense, but an institution designed to 'uplift the mo...

Place, Children, Philanthropy

1 memorial
James Henry Skipsey

James Henry Skipsey

James Henry Skipsey is the 1st on the right of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 15 February 1900 in Walworth, the eldest of the thirteen children of Jame...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials