Chairman of the Shoreditch Housing Committee in 1940. From Tower Block: "Aggressive site-acquisition underpinned London's most forceful borough housing drive: that of Shoreditch MBC. This authority was fortunate in its plentifull industrial rate revenue and its relatively low slum decanting requirement. Under its Housing Chairman, J. Samuels, and its Borough Surveyor, J. Sharratt {presumably Fulcher's successor}, Shoreditch launched vigorously into the building of repetitive slab blocks (from 1948) and point blocks (from 1955)."
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Councillor J. Samuels
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Wenlock Barn Estate
The plaque is on the first floor balcony, in our photo partly hidden by tree ...
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Nestor Makhno
Anarchist revolutionary and commander of an anarchist army. Born in what is now Ukraine. Died in exile in Paris.
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Secretary of State for the Colonies 1858-59. Brought up in London. It must have been a dark and stormy night when he met Rosina, who he married in 1827,...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Councillor C. J. Palmer
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
1 memorial
Thomas Holland
We thank Jay Dae-Su Vega for permission to use this picture from his website where we learn that Holland was a barrister. Thence we found the Middle Temple register of admissions where we learn tha...
2 memorials