Signs through time: along the A10
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A quick look at changing styles of street signs, all from a stroll along
the main road from Dalston Junction to Stoke Newington stations. (It's the
A10, ...
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5 Colyton Road, East Dulwich (by Peckham Rye)London
house (blure plaque)of Percy Lane Oliver (1878-1944), founder of the first voluntary blood donor service, lived and worked here.
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.
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.
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