Erection date: 10/11/2018
Joseph Beck, 1828 - 1891, Chairman of the Clissold Park Preservation Committee who spearheaded the campaign (1886 - 8) to save Clissold Park from development, lived in Barton House which stood on this site.
London Borough of Hackney
N16, Albion Road, 233
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Joseph Beck at Barton House
The house is said (Hackney Gazette) to have been named for Joseph Beck's gran...
Saving Clissold Park have some lovely old photos of this man but they have es...
Built as Paradise House, or Newington Park House, in the late 1700s for Jonat...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Joseph Beck at Barton House
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
We'd hoped to find more information about the early buildings, perhaps a picture, but we found nothing. We are thankful that the new-bui...
We were there on 'Run Hackney' day, though quite a few of them were actually walking the half marathon. The street art in Hackney streets...
It is thought that the rather exotic trees, Australian bottlebrush, in this road are a nod to the Antipodean connection.
{On the plaque on the gate pier:} To the memory of William Gilbert Grace, the great cricketer, 1848 - 1915, these gates were erected by t...
English Heritage Vivien Leigh, 1913-1967, actress, lived here.
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