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Here is my June Council Report. More information: Visit the UCL website here. One of the benefits of working within central London is the number of quiet urban spaces that can add colour, tranquillity and community to your lunch break.

The Calthorpe Project was set-up to improve the physical and emotional well-being of those who live, work or study in Camden and surrounding areas. When the land went up for sale in , Camden council busily prepared it for 70, square feet of office space.

That was until local people caught wind of the plans and then campaigned successfully for the space to be turned into a community garden. As well as training and offering volunteering opportunities to people with learning disabilities and mental health issues, the project also supports sustainable food growing. A big part of this eco-friendly effort is the vegetarian cafe, which serves organic veg right from the garden and they even use the remains to fuel the cookers and indoor heaters.

More information: Visit The Calthorpe Project website. Writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane moved to this quintessentially-Victorian home in At the time, Chelsea was pretty unfashionable — until Carlyle became famous, and Dickens, Tennyson and others started flocking here to spend time with him. Outside, there are just a few clues that a special place lies just a few feet away, such as the statue of Thomas Carlyle that sits on Chelsea Embankment….

The attention to detail is stunning, right down to the books in the study and the worn chair in the corner. More information: Visit the National Trust website here. Some of the links in this blog post are affiliate links. At no cost to you, I earn a small commission when you click on them and make a purchase.

As well as being a very peaceful place to while away a couple of hours, Hampstead Cemetery also has its fair share of extraordinary people buried within its walls. Who saved the life of a king? And who electrified the Tube? Sheldon from the Cemetery Club blog explains in this YouTube video.

You can also read what Sheldon says below. When the Metropolitan line was opened in it was a very different premise entirely. Yes, OK it was an Underground system and the first in the world however, it was powered by steam engines. Every time a steam engine would come into the Underground station you were probably choked by noxious fumes of sulphur and smoke and so on. When he retired aged 50, he decided to go freelance, and it was in his freelance period that he actually created a lot of his best-known work.

For example, the electrification of a London Underground line. But [Spagnoletti] had another idea. So it was the first line to be completely electrified, not only in terms of the trains but [also] in terms of the lighting, in terms of the signage and so on.

He really wanted to clean up the act of the London Underground. So he basically installed various cables with all of his knowledge from all of his previous work at the Great Western Railway, working alongside engineers such as Sir John Fowler, Benjamin Baker and so on. And when King Edward descended from Kennington Tube station when it was opened, he saw a gleaming hall of bright shining lights, electric trains, clean air.

Now, he was a very bombastic and very dedicated Italian gentleman — he was known for wearing white waistcoats and lavender gloves, and he certainly was a cut above the rest in terms of not only in style, but also in talent, too.

From that spot, they come to this spot in Hampstead Cemetery where the remains of Sir Joseph Lister are lowered into this grave. His name was lent to it — Listerine mouthwash.

For Sir Joseph Lister was a pioneer in antiseptic surgery. He started his career in Scotland where he was a surgeon, but he was very closely following the work of a gentleman named Louis Pasteur who was concerned with germ theory. Now, Lister was a surgeon and at this time surgeons were concerned with how they were perceived. A number of their aprons were crusted and stained with the blood of previous surgeries.

Never mind the fact that this was completely unhygienic — they took this as a badge of honour. He thought, if we could sterilise the surgical procedures, perhaps we could improve patient lifespan. So he was looking at the work of a gentleman by the name of Rudge who has invented a product called creosote. Creosote was used to preserve wood. Obviously, to preserve wood, it creates an environment where no bacteria can get in to eat and dissolve it.

So [Lister] thought, if I make a solution of this, could this be applied an operation scenario? This was a breakthrough. Whereas before they would have died, and miraculously they actually started to live. So he actually changed the face — and indeed the survival rate — of most life-changing surgeries. And he [Lister] was brought onto the scene, essentially to treat what was wrong with the King.

But, it was the work of Frederick Treves, who was the best friend of the elephant man, and Joseph Lister who diagnosed the fact that he had some sort of abscess on his appendix. Now, this required skill which as a surgeon Frederick Treaves would very happily deliver, but it was Lister who was there to administer the antibiotic properties, and indeed the anaesthetic, to make sure that the King lived.

And again, in this forgotten part of Hampstead Cemetery, we owe so much to this man — the NHS, the world health service, even — is all because of his sterling work. And he basically made music available for the masses. Now, back in the Victorian era, if you wanted to hear your favourite requiem or any kind of music, you would either have to listen to it in your head, or go to see it being performed live, which probably for most people would be maximum four or five times their entire lifetime.

Gaisberg opened up a studio in the s and started working for the grammar phone company. And using experimental technology [he] started to record anything and everything, from farmyard noises to the sound of opening doors to even opera singers, because he was fascinated by music and sound.

They say his powers of diplomacy would have made most diplomats jealous — he could handle the most tricky of artists. And one of his crowning achievements was when he recorded the Italian opera singer, Enrico Caruso. He was in his mids, kind of rotund, twizzly moustache, very bombastic and very popular. Gaisberg then went back to the grammar phone company and said this is what Caruso wants in terms of a fee, and they sent back a telegram in bold, capital letters, essentially saying TOO MUCH.

Next day, Caruso turns up at his hotel room and basically starts recording — slightly tentatively at first, but then once he gets into the swing of things, he starts singing beautiful music, to the point where Gaisberg actually did a cartoon of him singing, which he presented to him afterwards.

Now, the recording equipment at the time was fairly rudimentary. It was basically a square horn that you had to sing into at point-blank range. The piano accompaniment had to be done at the exact same level as the microphone. So the actual piano had to be hoisted up onto planks so that it could be played at the same level so that the horn could record the sound.

Gaisberg recorded it and everything went well, and he started to sell it. Remarkably, [it was] an amazing best seller. It sold over , units, which considering the time that this was recorded — this was done with technology that was incredibly new — was an amazing feat. Never mind George Martin, The Beatles or any kind of recording companies — because of him we can listen to things on Spotify, YouTube, Deezer, Tidal — whatever you want to listen to — all because of his efforts.

And we owe that man a great debt. This is Marie Lloyd, although when she was born she was plain old Matilda Wood. Now, she had a natural aptitude for being a performer. She was the eldest of nine siblings and many of them would actually help her as an ensemble cast to perform music and stage shows and so on, basically for the benefit of the local community.

The gilded bronze winged victory on the globe in the right hand of the figure was stolen on 25 October [and] replaced with a replica in the 's. William Wilberforce [] was a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade..

Image shows Queen Elizabeth at the statue just before a service in March marking the th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. One of London monuments in Kershman , page In glass-fronted cabinet. Jeremy Bentham [] was a philosopher who campaigned for social and political reform. The Auto-Icon has a wax head; the real head is in a mummified-state locked away in the university.

Click here for video. Information courtesy of Hope May 08Feb Inscription on plaque: "In this house lived in Dante Gabriel Rossetti , poet and painter, and from William Morris , poet and artist, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones , painter. Info courtesy of Valerie Flessati This is 1 of 45 monuments in her "Peace Trails through London," page 4. Designed by Gothic architect Samuel Sanders Teulon [] Sculpted by W. Richard Cobden [] was a major peace figure according to Peter van den Dungen.

Upper image is from , lower image is recent. See other Cobden statue outside St. Ann's Church, Manchester. Ann's Church, Manchester England. Richard Cobden [] was a major peace figure. By sculptor John Henry Foley []. This is 1 of 45 monuments in her "Peace Trails through London," page Circa Erected by committee under Joseph Corfield [].

This is not his grave; he is buried in Newtown , Montgomeryshire Wales. Column of light stone inscribed "to the memory of the men and women who have generously given their time and means to improve the conditions and enlarge the happiness of all classes of society. Displays "the names of 50 well-known reformers.

Another 25 were added in on the instructions of Corfield's daughter Emma. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell et al, May names 46 of the reformers. In a nonconformist cemetery. By Albert Toft.

He was known as 'The Apostle of Peace' in recognition of his work as secretary of the Peace Society []. Stead [] in Embleton England. Statue on top is commonly called "Eros. Lord Shaftesbury is honored under his given name of Anthony Ashley-Cooper together with William Wilberforce [] on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church on 30 July for his witness against slavery.

Contains rows of ceramic tiles commemorating people who died saving others. Created by artist George Frederick Watts []. One tile commemorates John Cranmer, Aged 23, "drowned A new statue, by Nicola Hicks [right image], was erected in Battersea Park in The Brown Dog affair was a political controversy about vivisection that raged in Edwardian England from until It involved the infiltration of University of London medical lectures by Swedish women anti-vivisection activists, pitched battles between medical students and the police, police protection for the statue of a dog, a libel trial at the Royal Courts of Justice, and the establishment of a Royal Commission to investigate the use of animals in experiments.

Click here for an article about this grave. The relief on the base includes images of the army in action, but nothing about the monument refers to the devastation and horror of the Boer War in South Africa.

The narrative is selective and its message is clear: the Royal Artillery brought peace to the region. The nuances of the truth are unimportant. World's first peace garden? Many of his letters to Lady Ottoline Morrell [] were written from this fourth floor flat, where TS Eliot once stayed too. Although Russell was an atheist from his teens, his lifelong social values were shaped by his grandmother, whose favourite Bible verse was: "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Lower image shows Lady Ottoline.

The face of the charioteer leading the quadriga is that of a small boy actually the son of Lord Michelham, the man who funded the sculpture. The largest bronze sculpture in Europe.

Interpretation changed after the German victory over France in when the woman became Victoria, the goddess of Victory, by adding a Prussian eagle on an iron cross to her ensemble. Changed again to a symbol of the Third Reich when the Nazis reached power. Bronze casting of a sculpture made by Auguste Rodin [] in and installed in Calais France in Depicts six leading citizens who offered their lives in to King Edward III of England as ransom for the protection of other townsfolk.

One of 21 peace monuments named by the PPU website. Bronze casting by Auguste Rodin [] in Upper image - Memorial to W. Sculpted by Sir George Frampton []. William Thomas Stead [] was "the first truly modern journalist. Lower image - Memorial to W. Click here for a New York Times article about Stead. An identical plaque with a different inscription is on Victoria Embankment, London qv.

Upper image Date? Lower image Date? Text of plaque: "William Thomas Stead, , world renowned journalist and apostle of peace, was born here, July 5th Sculpted by Arthur George Walker []. Florence Nightingale [], who came to be known as 'The Lady with the Lamp,' was a pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician.

Note lamp in the statue's right hand. Bronze plaque shows Nightengale in hospital, advising. All three are part of the Crimean War Memorial.

Anti-war painting by Mark Gertler []. Purchased by the Tate in Lawrence was deeply affected by the painting but, although recognising Gertler's anguish, related it to the artist's Jewish roots rather than to World War I.

A white steeped stone base leads up to a central column of white Sicilian marble, surrounded by four columns of black Labrador granite. The column is surmounted by an angel with spread wings, and inscribed with the names of the children who died. Inscribed: "A Croydon conscientious objector who died from injuries sustained in prison. This stone was paid for by donations.

Covers all aspects of war, including the anti-war movement. Sculpted by Geore Frampton. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone. Gift from the Belgian nation to thank Great Britain for their assistance to Belgium in the war, when thousands of Belgian people found refuge here during the German occupation of their country.

Leon Delacroix, the Belgian Prime Minister, had offered the memorial to the British nation, and it was formally accepted by Lord Curzon. The unveiling was performed by Princess Clementine of Belgium. By it had its first premises in Bishopsgate.