Alice Zimmern, 1855 - 1939, pioneering advocate for women's education and suffrage, lived here.
Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association
Heritage Lottery Fund
NW5, Lissenden Gardens, 41-50 Clevedon Mansions
These flats were completed in 1906 and Zimmern was one of the first residents to move in.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alice Zimmern
Pioneering advocate for women's education and suffrage. Born Nottingham. St...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Alice Zimmern
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (rebranded 2019), formerly the Heritage Lo...
When we first researched this area in 2008 there were three plaques erected b...
Note that the plaque says that not only was a new building erected but also that the site was extended into the adjacent ground.
No explanation for the choice of name is given and we are not aware that Nettlefold was associated in any way with Tower Hamlets.
The Harmsworth plaque is inside the entrance lobby to the Museum, just to the right of our photo.
In 1870 Engels quit his job as a Manchester mill-owner and moved into this house which Jenny Marx had found for him. It was just a 10 min...
The small blue plaque is to the left of the ground floor window.
The Guardian has a photo of Dylan performing at the 'Singers Club'. This club was initiated by Ewan MacColl and was, at the time, meetin...
Paul Andrew Charles Head. He was the son of Charles R. Head (b.1933) and Mary I. Head née Lamonby (b.1933) and his birth was registered in the Newbury, Berkshire, registration district. In Octobe...
From: British History: "This building was erected in 1851 as a school by the Congregationalists of the adjoining Horbury Chapel. The arc...
Unit of soldiers raised in Manchester during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, supporting Charles Stewart against George II. 300 volunteers commanded by Francis Towneley. They withdrew to Carlisle whi...
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