Surbiton

This is a PowerPoint presentation with notes of a talk entitled “Charles Lock Luck of Surbiton. The architect & the man”.

The grave of John Robert and Gertrude Pannell is in Surbiton Cemetery [Section IV, Grave 58]…

BEHIND THE NAMES. THE MEMORIAL TO THE PARISH DEAD OF THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1919, AT ST. RAPHAEL’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, KINGSTON UPON THAMES

…attached to documents, dated July 1874, in the Church archives, were pieces of cloth stated to have been cut from the covering of the Turin Shroud…

In 1816 Alexander Raphael commissioned a sarcophagus for himself in the church of the Armenian Monastery….

Noel Baddow Pope was born in Toxteth, a sub-district of Liverpool, on Christmas Eve, 1909. He moved with his widowed mother to Surbiton before 1926.

The first mission in Kingston upon Thames, mentioned in the Catholic Directory, was St. Raphael’s Church, in Surbiton.

Local historian Tim Everson’s collation of old and new photographs with informative captions…

Alexander Raphael was born in Madras, modern-day Chennai, India, in 1775…