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
Joseph Aloysius Hansom, 1803 - 1882, architect, founder-editor of The Builder and inventor of the Hansom Cab, lived here. Greater London ...
The two plaques face each other, on the inside walls of the arcade. The Castle Baynard tree is the one to the right in the photo. 2019: ...
See Spitalfields Life for a good post on the Caslon Foundry. April 2017: John Whitehead told us the plaque has been removed by developer...
In our photo the plaque can be seen through the gap in the railings, laid into the ground in front of the grass.
