Erection date: 1989
Wrought-iron arch created as a memorial to Altab Ali and other victims of racist attacks. Symbolically combines elements of Bangladeshi and English perpendicular architecture.
E1, Whitechapel Road, Altab Ali Park
The Evening Standard has a thoughtful piece about this park.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Altab Ali arch
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Altab Ali arch
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Altab Ali arch
{On the red granite inset:} Erected 1860 by one unknown yet well known. Remo...
"The splendid struggling mothers..." is surely a quote from something, perhaps written by Geraldine Mary at the time the Park was being p...
There are a pair of these gates on each side of the carriageway which bisects the Park.
We can't find any information explaining these gates but they were probably part of the 1958 post-war rebuild of the church and cloisters.
This charming Victorian gothic development of 12 Grade 2 listed homes, completed in 1865 was at the southern extremity of the Holly Lodge...
Since they are rather lovely we chose to photo one of the gate-post sculpted finials rather than the inscription. The other sculpture de...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Artist and diplomat. Born in Siegen, Westphalia (modern day Germany). He studied art in Antwerp and Venice, and entered the service of Vincenzo Gonzago, Duke of Mantua, where he began a parallel ca...
Person, Art, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Belgium, Germany, Italy
If the erection date of September 2009 is correct, it seems rather strange to commemorate the bicentenary four years late. The other plaq...
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