Plaque

Cholmeley Boys Club

Erection date: 5/11/1898

Inscription

This stone was laid by Lt. Col. The Rt. Hon. Horatio D. Davies, MP, Lord Mayor of London on the 5th day of November 1898.
Revd. Ernest A. B. Sanders MA, Vicar of St Marks, Dalston
W. Moreton Phillips, Thomas J. Russell - Churchwardens
Holliday & Greenwood - Contractors
Herbert O. Ellis - Architect

Site: Cholmeley Boys Club (1 memorial)

N16, Boleyn Road, 68

Residential advisor about this venue: "Beautiful old music-hall type venue with wooden floors, internal balconies and surreal decor".

Hackney Buildings has; "This late-Victorian mission building was designed by Herbert O Ellis in 1898 for St Mark’s Church, Dalston. Originally the parish of St Mark’s had very close links with Highgate School .... During the 19th century Highgate School was one of England’s leading public schools and like Eton College and Merchant Taylors' set up missions in the deprived areas of east and north-east London. ... The building was originally used as a Sunday School, mission hall, working men’s club and soup kitchen."

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Cholmeley Boys Club

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Holliday & Greenwood Ltd

Contractors active in 1907. National Archives have records for this company 1...

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Herbert O. Ellis

Architect active in 1898. Did other work for Rev. Sanders. We believe we fou...

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W. Moreton Phillips

Co-churchwarden of St Marks, Dalston in 1898. Probably the same W. Moreton Ph...

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Thomas J. Russell

Co-churchwarden of St Marks, Dalston in 1898.

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Reverend Ernest Arthur Blackwell Sanders, M.A.

Vicar of St Marks, Dalston in 1898. As rector in Whitechapel he built the St ...

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Sir Horatio David Davies

Lord Mayor of London (1897), Army officer and businessman. Alderman on the Br...

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