First female mayor of Camberwell. She was active in many committees, covering the arts, libraries, hospitals, children’s welfare and housing. She also advocated the need for more green space in London. Burgess Park in Camberwell is named for her.
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Jessie Burgess
The plaque is one of a series in the Burgess Park Heritage Trail. They are us...
LLM, Town Clerk, active in the 1950s and 60s. Andrew Behan has researched Austin: Robert Charles Edwin Austin LL.M was born on 31 January 1900 in Fulham, the son of Charles Edwin Austin and Mary A...
At this meeting Karl Marx (attending as delegate of the Brussels Circle) and Frederick Engels (representing the Paris communities) were commissioned to write an action programme for the Communist L...
The Victorian Town Hall was bombed in WW2 and demolished in 1963. After the bombing the neighbouring municipal offices (1928, H. Tansley) were used for all council needs. Then in 1964 Bermondsey be...
Superintendent of Stores in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1888-1903. Honorary Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
He served with the Grenadier Guards in the Second Boer War. Entering the House of Lords on the death of his father, he became 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope.Â
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, South Africa
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