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Red Lion Square is a small square in Holborn, London. [1] The square was laid out in 1684 by Nicholas Barbon , [ 2 ] taking its name from the Red Lion Inn. [ 1 ] According to some sources, the bodies of three regicides — Oliver Cromwell , John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton —were placed in a pit on the site of the square.
Gately, ringed, at the Red Lion Square demonstration at which he died. Kevin Gately (18 September 1953 – 15 June 1974) was a student who died as the result of a head injury received in the Red Lion Square disorders in London while protesting against the National Front, a far-right, fascist political party.
The site they selected, in Red Lion Square, was a tenement, previously used as a factory belonging to James Perry, a pen and ink maker. [2] The new building was designed by Frederick Mansford in the Art Deco style, built in silver-grey brick with red brick detailing and was officially opened on 23 September 1929. [1] [3] [4]
In 1929 they built new premises, Conway Hall, at 37 (now numbered 25) Red Lion Square, in nearby Bloomsbury, on the site of a tenement, previously a factory belonging to James Perry, a pen and ink maker.
Barbon started his largest project yet, [8] the redevelopment of Red Lion Square, and environs in Holborn without being authorised to do so. The Gray's Inn lawyers, Inns of Court adjacent saw their rural outlooks jeopardised, and started physical fist fights with Barbon's workmen, but the developer and his men fought back.
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Northampton Square Gardens were opened to the public in 1885, with funding from the MPGA. Fanny Wilkinson designed the gardens, and included a drinking fountain and bandstand, both of which remain, as does a circle of London plane trees. [21] [22] Red Lion Square, LB Camden, 1885. Red Lion Square was laid out in the late 17th century as a ...
Clement Blair Peach (25 March 1946 – 24 April 1979) was a New Zealand teacher who was killed during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England.A campaigner and activist against the far right, in April 1979 Peach took part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration in Southall against a National Front election meeting in the town hall and was hit on the head, probably by a member of ...