Edmund Barnes
Local politician, school teacher and magistrate in St Pancras. Born in Blandford, Dorset. 1869 became headmaster of St Clement Danes School and settled in St. Pancras, living there for the rest of...
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Livingstone Design Group
Group of architects, active in 1989. We may be wrong but we're pretty certain it's not this one.
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VAT Watkins Ltd
Building contractors active in 1989. 1994 Construction News reported: "VAT Watkins, the London-based contractor, has collapsed and the administrative receivers are set to sell off its £18 million ...
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St Giles and St George's Schools
At Bloomsbury and St. Giles's: past and present; with historical and antiquarian notices of the vicinity, 1890Â we found: "BLOOMSBURY PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. These schools, founded in the year 1705, were...
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Roger Philip Goad
Explosives officer with the London Metropolitan Police Service. Previously he was in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and had worked his way up to the rank of captain. He was called to attend to a su...
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Sir William Beveridge
Economist and social reformer. Born William Henry Beveridge in Rangpur, India (now in Bangladesh). He is remembered for the 1942 report 'Social Insurance and Allied Services' (known as the Beveridg...
Person, Economist, Politics & Administration, Indian Sub-continent
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Old Mercers’ Club
From Old Mercers' Club: "The Club was formed as the Mercers’ School Old Boys Association ... in 1904 and grew out of the Old Mercers’ Football Club which had been formed in 1901. ... The first annu...
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Hospital of St Thomas of Acon
A collegiate church and hospital on the north side of Cheapside on the site now occupied by Mercers' Hall and Chapel. Founded by Thomas Fitzthebald de Heil and Agnes his wife, sister to Thomas Bec...
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Mercers' School
An independent school in the City of London dating back to at least 1542. Operated by the Worshipful Company of Mercers. In 1542 the Mercers’ Company purchased the site of the Hospital of St Thoma...
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Daddy Vego
Barrington Adams, aka Daddy Vego - the first Jamaican to set up a static sound system, the Peoples Sound System, at the Notting Hill Carnival. In 1988 he founded his shop, the People’s Sound Recor...
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