Erection date: 16/4/2009
Sir Jack Cohen, 1898 - 1979, entrepreneur founder of Tesco Stores, lived here as a child.
English Heritage
Unveiled by Cohen's daughter, the Tesco heiress and disgraced Conservative politician Dame Shirley Porter.
E1, Ashfield Street, 91
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Jack Cohen
Businessman. Born Jacob Edward Kohen in Whitechapel. He worked as an apprenti...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Jack Cohen
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