From Bob's archive: A land without people for a people without land?
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*Continuing my monthly post from the archive. This is from November 2008.
Since then, the Maldives have not succeeded in finding a new location, and
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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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UNISON South East Blood Branch
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