Bowler plaque - Four Tankards
E1, Brick Lane
This cast-iron roundel, showing 4 tankards around an eagle motif, is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Bowler plaque - Shuttle and Bobbins
E1, Folgate Street
The plaque shows a shuttle and two bobbins, representing the local weaving trade. It is placed close to Dennis Severs' House and was made...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Bowler plaque - Decorated Hand
E1, Brick Lane, Spitalfields Health Centre
Mehndi is the use of henna to decorate hands etc. in India and neighbouring countries. It is used particularly by women for festive occas...
1 creator
School wall relief
E1, Brick Lane
The wall plaque has not only an ornate cartouche with the inscription but also a detailed relief of the lost building. 1873 is very early...
1 subject commemorated
Bowler plaque - Book, Children and Eight Pencils
E1, Brick Lane
The two figures are inspired by the figures shown on the wall relief. These depict the two charity scholar figures that were on the facad...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Bowler plaque - Freedom Press
E1, Whitechapel High Street
The "A"s are certainly the anarchists' 'A' symbol but we don't understand what the hands signify. The gesture shows the thumb and first f...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Percy Shelley - SE1 - Southwark
SE1, Nelson Square, 26, Applegarth House
British History Online gives: "Percy Bysshe Shelley {} took lodgings at No. 26 as a tenant of Thomas Lillo on 9th November, 1814. Shelley...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Percy Shelley - SE1 - blue
SE1, Nelson Square, 26, Applegarth House
British History Online: "In 1932 the London County Council erected a memorial tablet on No. 26, Nelson Square." Nice though the Historic...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Tower of London execution site - c.1910
EC3, Tower Green, Tower of London
This image came from Twitter via Londonist, and from the children's clothes must be about 1910. 2020: Terje Hartberg contacted us via Tw...
3 subjects commemorated
Tower of London execution site - 1972
EC3, Tower Green, Tower of London
In the first 2 minutes of the 1972 CCF film "The Boy Who Turned Yellow" some boys are taken on a school trip to the Tower of London and w...
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