Erection date: 1984
Dr Jimmy Mallon, CH, 1874 - 1961, Warden of Toynbee Hall, Champion of social reform, lived here.
Greater London Council
E1, Commercial Street, Toynbee Hall
The plaques about the clock are at about shoulder height on the wall below the clock. The blue Mallon plaque is on the building to the left.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dr Jimmy Mallon
Economist and political activist. Born James Joseph Mallon in Chorlton, Manch...
The first university settlement house. Founded by Samuel and Henrietta Barnet...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Dr Jimmy Mallon
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Dr Jimmy Mallon
This plaque surely can't have been intended to be submerged? Did they accidentally attached it too low on the wall and then quietly swea...
Unveiled by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley. Behind this plaque is an interesting detective story, related in Dr Ruth Richardson's book: 'Dicke...
The clock can be seen in our site picture and you'll undestand why we chose to honour the plaque with a photo, in preference to the clock.
Donald Pleasence OBE, 1919 - 1995, actor, lived here. The Heritage Foundation
Built for W S Gilbert in 1889, the Garrick Theatre has continued to thrive largely on a mixed diet of comedy, comedy-drama and farce. The theatre is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of actor mana...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Historian. novelist and biographer. Born at Dartington Rectory, Devon. He intended to become a clergyman, but his doubts expressed in his novel 'The Nemesis of Faith' changed his mind and he turned...
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