Leyton Library
Grade II listed building, designed by John Knight in an Italianate style and opened in 1882 as Leyton Town Hall . Outgrown by 1892 and replaced by the new town hall alongside. Later adapted to serve as a public library.
Waltham Forest Heritage
E10, High Road Leyton, 273
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Leyton Library
Designed by John Knight, this originally opened as Leyton Town Hall. It was o...
Architect. We only have some ideas about who this might be, from Charles Saum...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Leyton Library
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
This double plaque, the foundation stone, is under the window on the right. Quite where the scroll was deposited (behind the plaque in t...
Fort and his wife Anna lived in the first floor flat, conveniently close to the British Museum for his researches.
The blue plaque is below the Palladian window to the left of our photo. Before 2011 the square blue plaque was where the red information ...
This is a lovely plaque but the fireman's helmet on a plaque for a police constable is odd. It doesn't even seem as if a fire was involved.
Michael Caine unveiled his own plaque.
