45 Norman Grove. E. Sylvia Pankhurst set up the East London Toy Factory and babies nursery in this house and the building in the rear garden, 1914 - 1934.
The factory was financed by Norah Lyle-Smyth (1874 - 1963).
Historic Buildings of Bow
E3, Norman Grove, 45
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
East London Toy Factory
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing worksho...
Painter, sculptor, photographer and suffragette. Born Norah Veronica Lyle-Smy...
Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Traine...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
East London Toy Factory
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Edmund Payne (1863 - 1914) actor & comedian, lived here. The Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America
Ian Visits gave us the precise date that this station was opened: 10 March 1932.
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this memorial (in French).
H. M. Bateman, 1887 - 1970, cartoonist, lived here 1910 - 1914. English Heritage
Mann lived here in a very small flat, only 500sq ft. But it had superb light for his work.
