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
Hyde Park Estate Percy Dearmer, 1867 - 1936, priest and liturgist, Canon of Westminster Abbey, author of the Parson’s Handbook and the O...
Plaque unveiled by the then Mayor of Westminster, Louise Hyams.
The plaques are on the ground at the foot of the tree. The tree is one of several which are reputed to be the oldest in Britain. The buil...
From a paper presented at the 2012 conference of the North American Barbara Pym Society we deduce that the plaque was erected in or befor...
The plaque is inside this building,in the foyer.
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