One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
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Josephine Trotman
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Princess Royal Nurses Home
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer...
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Alfred Bestall
Author and illustrator. Born Alfred Edmeades Bestall in Mandalay, Burma. He served in the army during WW1, transporting troops in red double-decker buses. Following his studies at the L.C.C. Centra...
1 memorial
Central Foundation Girls School
Moved from Spital Square in 1975 to the building in Bow Road.  Spitalfields Life reports on a 2013 school reunion at the old building, which is now Galvin Restaurant - old photos and reminiscences.
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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.
1 memorial
P. L. Travers
Author. Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland. She emigrated to England at the age of 25 and adopted the name Pamela Lyndon Travers whilst writing the Mary Poppins novels for which she ...
1 memorial
Arthur Mee
Author and journalist. Born at Stapleford, near Nottingham. He started his career working for a local newspaper. In 1908 he began working on a fortnightly magazine called 'The Children's Encyclopae...
1 memorial
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