In grateful memory of Alderman Charles Fisher Yates JP, an ardent worker for and benefactor of the West Hackney Almshouses, who passed away on the 2nd February 1945.
This memorial is from Commercial Motor Users of Hackney who have established a fund, the income of which is to be distributed to the residents of the almshouses annually, to perpetuate the memory of a very dear friend.
E5, Northwold Road, West Hackney Almshouses
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Yates
Mainly from British History Online we've learnt the following: In 1740 Thomas...
Mayor of Hackney 1933-34. The picture shows him (the mayor on the left) at th...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles Yates
The name suggest a group of local business people coming together around the ...
Originally the 1892 Passmore Edwards Library this building is now part of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, based in the building next door wi...
The brown plaque is difficult to see on the red bricks. It's in the arch above the ground floor bay window. (When plotting this pin we w...
From: British History: "This building was erected in 1851 as a school by the Congregationalists of the adjoining Horbury Chapel. The arc...
Mann lived here in a very small flat, only 500sq ft. But it had superb light for his work.
