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Old Poplar Town Hall

At Poplar High Street, Woodstock Terrace corner. Listed Grade 2, architects: Hills, Fletcher and Harstons. Built in 1870 for the Poplar District Board of Works, which in 1900 became the Poplar Borough Council. It was extended at the northern end in 1920. In 1938 the council moved out, into the new Town Hall in Bow Road.

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Old Poplar Town Hall

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Poplar Rate Rebels mural - 1

The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29.  The count o...

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W. Batley

W. Batley

On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Pieter Gerbrandy

Pieter Gerbrandy

Politician. Born Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy near Sneek in the Netherlands. He was a professor at the Vrije University of Amsterdam in 1930 and entered politics later in the decade, becoming Minister ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Netherlands

1 memorial
Charles Spiers

Charles Spiers

Trustee of the Norton Folgate almshouses in 1860.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Thomas Brushfield

Thomas Brushfield

Church warden at Christ Church Spitalfields in 1836. At Wikia we found a Thomas Brushfield who we think must be our man: A businessman and local politician. Born Derbyshire, he moved to London whe...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Councillor David Avery

Councillor David Avery

David James Avery was born on 2 December 1933, the third of the five children of Frederick Joseph Avery (1897-1988) and Ethel Maud Avery née Lambert (1901-1984) whose birth was registered in the St...

Person, Medicine, Politics & Administration

2 memorials