Poplar & Stepney Rifles
Site of the Drill Hall (1860 - 1907) of 26th Middlesex Volunteers. Later part of 17th Battalion London Regiment (Poplar & Stepney Rifles) of whom 1,022 soldiers were killed in the Great War 1914 - 1918.
The History of Wapping Trust
Turk's Head Charity
E1, Glamis Road
A London Inheritance has a good post on this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Poplar & Stepney Rifles
We can find no image of the Drill Hall but have found a "Drill Shed" on a 188...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
London unit which served in WW1 where it lost 1,022 soldiers. More informati...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Poplar & Stepney Rifles
Started in the early 1970s as Wapping Parents Action Group. Transformed into ...
From the Picture source website: "The Turk’s Head was bought from the Council...
Greater London Council Baron Friedrich von Hügel, 1852 - 1925, theologian lived here, 1882 - 1903.
Plaque unveiled by Ray Mears.
This house seems modest for a man who was so successful, but he was touring a lot of the time, and he moved in before he really hit the b...
Mary Hughes, 1860 - 1941, friend of all in need, lived and worked here, 1926 - 1941. London County Council
British Pathe have film of this ceremony: The Queen Mum looks pretty experienced with a cement trowel and stone hammer, while the then Pr...
