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
Constance Spry, 1886 - 1960, designer in flowers, worked here 1934 - 1960. English Heritage
City of Westminster Peter Cook, 1937 - 1995, comedian and "only twin", co-founded and ran the Establishment Club here. The Heritage Fou...
{Around the fleur de lys:} Almshouse Association Patron's Award
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young woman: Rosaline Henry was born on 23 September 1964 and died, aged 16 years, on 18 January 1981 in a fire at party being held at 439 New Cross...
Road tunnel crossing under the River Thames, connecting Rotherhithe to the Ratcliff district of Limehouse. Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, it was constructed using both a tunnelling 'shield' a...
A tavern/restaurant at 1 Change Alley. 2019: We were kindly contacted by Raymond Cross who told us that his great great uncle, William Mann Cross ( ? - 1919) was the owner and proprietor of this r...
This town is the birthplace of Shyamji Krishna Varma, who founded India House.
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