'Bothaw' derived from 'boathouse', which makes sense when you remember that before the Embankment was built the Thames used be be a lot closer. In existence by 1279, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and not rebuilt. The site was retained as a churchyard until Cannon Street Railway Station was built in the 1860s.
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St Mary Bothaw
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St Mary Bothaw
Site of St Mary Bothaw, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666. The Corporation of ...
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National British Women's Temperance Association
Incorporated June 1896. We can't find any information about this organisation but think the NBWTA possibly mutated into the BWTA.
1 memorial
Society of Friends in London
English Buildings has a good short intro to Quakers in England and an assessment of an important Quaker building, albeit, not in London. Quakers were active in the WW2 Kindertransport.
3 memorials
Reverend Alexander John Forsyth
Born in his father's manse at Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, where he later become the vicar.  In 1805 he conducted experiments in the Tower of London under the Master General of Ordnance and in 1807 in...
1 memorial
Cosmo Gordon Lang Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Lang
Born in the Fyvie Manse, Aberdeen.  Archbishop of Canterbury, 1928-1942, during which he played a key role in the 1936 crisis surrounding the abdication of King Edward VIII, going on to crown Georg...
1 memorial
George Searles
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
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