tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post678291567441413707..comments2024-03-18T08:20:19.461+00:00Comments on Transpontine: Give BloodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-4701339845111946822008-03-09T17:04:00.000+00:002008-03-09T17:04:00.000+00:005 Colyton Road, East Dulwich (by Peckham Rye)Londo...5 Colyton Road, East Dulwich (by Peckham Rye)London<BR/><BR/>house (blure plaque)of Percy Lane Oliver (1878-1944), founder of the first voluntary blood donor service, lived and worked here.<BR/><BR/>He was born at St Ives, Cornwall, the son of parents Edward & Jane Oliver who moved to Peckham in the early 1880s where his father was a schoolmaster.<BR/><BR/>He was a founder member of the Camberwell Division of the Red Cross, and started the first blood donor panel in 1921. By the outbreak of World War II he had created a blood transfusion network covering the whole of the United Kingdom.<BR/><BR/>Give Blood<BR/>UNISON South East Blood BranchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com