Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
The Battle of Cable Street
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"They shall not pass"
The red colour of this plaque is, we're sure, chosen on purely aesthetic grounds.
E1, Dock Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
Mosley planned to march thousands of his British Union of Fascists through th...
Politician and Fascist leader. Born at 47 Hill Street, Mayfair, into landed g...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
Formerly The (Regent Street) Polytechnic. The plaque for the first cinema is inside the hall and is not normally accessible except when t...
Abbotsbury Gate - Holland Park Made possible by the bequest of the late Miss J. V. Pelletier - d.1988 and the Brighten Up the Borough Fun...
The "save the Oval" campaign was not, as we first thought, made necessary by a threat to replace the ground with flats, but was an appeal...
From Seven Dials Estate Conserevation Area Statement "The prevailing scale of the street is broken at the south eastern junction of Neal ...
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date. We've taken the dates on each plaque to be date of birth and date of death bu...
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