London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Wandsworth Council
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Battersea Park
The plaque definitively names Victoria Docks {sic} as the source of the soil ...
Wandsworth time capsule
In 1899 the Battersea Vestry became the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Wandsworth Council
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Albert Reginald Twyford
The plaque gives his first names as Reginald Albert in that order. However, h...
Alliott Verdon Roe - SW18
A. V. Roe, 1877 - 1958, aircraft pioneer and designer of AVRO aeroplanes, exp...
Battersea Park
The plaque definitively names Victoria Docks {sic} as the source of the soil ...
Battersea Park bandstand
Battersea Park was re-opened to the public by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT...
Biograph Theatre
Biograph Theatre opened 1908 as London's first licensed cinema. Originally th...
Other Subjects
Claudia Jones
Born Trinidad. Moved to New York where she became a Communist. Caught up in the McCarthy trials she was imprisoned and then extradited to Britain in December 1955. Became a community organiser afte...
Person, Community / Clubs, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands, USA
3 memorials
1 memorial
James Hall (Co-op)
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was Assistant Manager of the Abbey Wood branch in 1900 and Manager in June 1912.
2 memorials
Councillor Ray Adamson, Mayor of Camden
Ray Adamson served as the Mayor of the London Borough of Camden for the year 1997-98Â and from the Camden New Journal published on 13 August 2009 we learn that he was born on 10 August 1928 and died...
3 memorials
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister 1940 - 45 and 1951 - 55. Born Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, Oxford, into an aristocratic family. His father was the son of the Duke of Marlborough, and his mother was born in Broo...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
30 memorials
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