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St Olave Hart Street - church

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St Olave Hart Street - church

Survived the Great Fire but was so badly damaged in WW2 that for the period 1948 - 54 the congregation used a temporary church in Mark Street.

Samuel Pepys and his wife Elizabeth are buried here and it is here that the Samuel Pepys Club hold a memorial service each year, close to the date of Samuel's death.

Spitalfield's Life have a good post on .

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St Olave Hart Street - church

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All Hallows tower and Lambe's Chapel

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St Olave Parish Hall

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St Olave's Church

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St Mary Bothaw

St Mary Bothaw

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Rev. H. Russell Wakefield

Rev. H. Russell Wakefield

It seems very likely that the Rector of St Mary's, Bryanston Square in 1897 was this man. Bishop of Birmingham.

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1 memorial
Ernest W. Beard

Ernest W. Beard

From the building society that funded the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple. Advertised in the Hendon & Finchley Times in the 1920s and 30s.

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1 memorial
J. C. Taylor

J. C. Taylor

Vicar of St Mary's Harmondsworth in 1885.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
W. Spruce

W. Spruce

Committee Member of Kingston Spiritualist Church in 1927.

Person, Religion

1 memorial