Founded in the 1880s by Angela Burdett-Coutts.
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East End Dwellings Company Ltd
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Greenwich Palace / Palace of Placentia
The palace was built, as Bella Court, by Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, regent to the child king Henry VI. When the king married Margaret of Anjou Humphrey fell out of favour and died in prison in 1...
2 memorials
6 St James's Square
A full history of the house is given here, together with plans of the 1820 rebuild showing that it was very grand - we counted 5 internal staircases. At the source, British History Online, this im...
1 memorial
Lawrence Stevens
Builder and local politician. Born Stratford to a father with the same name and his wife Mary. From London Wikia:Â A member of the Rotherhithe Vestry, at the first election to the London County Coun...
1 memorial
Bowman's Lodge
An elegant house with views across countryside. Â Edward Lear's stockbroker father held the lease 1806 - 1829 so Edward lived here until he was 16. Â With two storeys and five bays it was not a parti...
1 memorial
Hughes Mansions
Flats built in honour of Judge Thomas Hughes. On 27 March 1945 part of the building was destroyed by the last V2 rocket to hit London (another one fell on Orpington, Kent on the same date), killing...
2 memorials
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