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
We thank our colleague, Alan Patient, for the photos of the plaque. April 2020: Immediately after publishing this we were contacted by o...
Unveiled by Pete Murray, Tony Prince (The Royal Ruler) and Mr Jean Olinger, the Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Video at New...
We have visited the address twice, but can see no sign of the plaque. So we have taken our image of the plaque from the Music Hall Guild ...
These flats were completed in 1906 and Zimmern was one of the first residents to move in.
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