In grateful memory of Alderman Charles Fisher Yates JP, an ardent worker for and benefactor of the West Hackney Almshouses, who passed away on the 2nd February 1945.
This memorial is from Commercial Motor Users of Hackney who have established a fund, the income of which is to be distributed to the residents of the almshouses annually, to perpetuate the memory of a very dear friend.
E5, Northwold Road, West Hackney Almshouses
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Yates
Mainly from British History Online we've learnt the following: In 1740 Thomas...
Mayor of Hackney 1933-34. The picture shows him (the mayor, on the left) at t...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles Yates
The name suggest a group of local business people coming together around the ...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
We can't find confirmation but we think this is site of the house where Fitzroy died, at his own hand, in 1865. The address given for th...
The more standard pub signs show a rather cartoony head and shoulders of HH, with his dates. We have failed to find out why this pub is n...
Note: other sources seem agreed that Susannah died on the 23rd not the 30th of July.
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