General manager of Crystal Palace 1914-49. Henry James Buckland was born in Maidstone. Lived at Rockhills, 1922-56. Knighted in 1931. Died Bromley, Kent.
The Palace burnt down in 1936 and Buckland was involved in , which ultimately came to very little. Buckland resigned as General Manager on 11 January 1949.
The picture is captioned: "Sir Henry Buckland ... helps workmen to pull down the last of the ironwork in the central transept after a controlled explosion, 15th July 1937." Looks like fun.
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Sir Henry Buckland
On this site stood Rockhills, the home of Sir Joseph Paxton MP, 1852 - 1865, ...
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. He is possibly the Lance Corporal T. F. Salmon, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment (Southwark Bridge Road, London...
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1910. Knight Grace in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Distiller, politician, cricket player, benefactor.  Born Upper Holloway into a gin distillery family.  They made Lamplighter gin at Three Mills on the River Lea.  The business moved into running pu...
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
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