45 Norman Grove. E. Sylvia Pankhurst set up the East London Toy Factory and babies nursery in this house and the building in the rear garden, 1914 - 1934.
The factory was financed by Norah Lyle-Smyth (1874 - 1963).
Historic Buildings of Bow
E3, Norman Grove, 45
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
East London Toy Factory
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing worksho...
Painter, sculptor, photographer and suffragette. Born Norah Veronica Lyle-Smy...
Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Traine...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
East London Toy Factory
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Henry Havelock Ellis, 1859 - 1939, pioneer in the scientific study of sex, lived here. Greater London Council
Reading right to left: De Pass; Rhodes-Moorhouse; Keysor; Campbell; Dunville; Colyer-Fergusson; Hewitt; Elliott-Cooper; Watson; Drummond;...
There was a row of houses here called Hanover Cottages. You can see them on the wonderful Time Travel Explorer map of 1830.
The building was also restored after World War II damage. There can't be much of the original left.
This plaque forms part of the access door to the fountain's workings.
