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
Sure looks like a City of London plaque but the text around the edge is different. We're guessing that the Congregation funded the plaque...
The dates on the plaque indicate the anticipated period of construction, but in the event the theatre did not open until November 1924.
Phileas J. Fogg, Esq. established the Society of Exploration here, 1a Bedford Street, 1883.
These alms houses were built 1875 (north range) and 1887 (south range), and the site has the remains of a Second World War air raid shelt...
This double plaque is under the window on the left. Sir Philip Sassoon was ADC to Douglas Haig in WW1. In 2008 we visited this area and ...
We've found confirmation that Emma was a real person (check the details on her Subject page) and we'd guess that she was, at one time, a ...
Founded and then served for 46 years as Honorary Secretary and Chaplain of the German Hospital and was described in "Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914"Â as the "soul of the h...
2019: Ann Pearson wrote questioning the absence of any reference on the plaque to William Godwin and Mary Shelley. We'll redress that omi...
The Sandemanians were a Christian sect founded by John Glas in Scotland and spread into England and America by his son-in-law Robert Sandeman. Sandeman arrived in London in April 1761 and establish...
Sculptor. Other works in London include: Fishergirl and Fisherman in the staircase niches at Fishmonger's Hall; three bas-reliefs in Portland stone in the main entrance of the Old Bailey; a memoria...
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