London Borough of Hackney
Edith Cavell. Executed in Belgium by German firing squad for assisting injured soldiers in World War I. Assistant Matron at the Shoreditch Infirmary, 1903 - 1906.
Cavell was executed by the Germans in Brussels and she figures on our sister site, BrusselsRemembers.
E2, Kingsland Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edith Cavell plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Edith Cavell was born on 4 December 1865 in Swardeston in Norfolk. At the age...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edith Cavell plaque
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
The Duke of Sussex had died just 3 years before this plaque was erected. We think the architect of this wing was Dr John Samuel Phene -...
This U-shaped 1864 extension is the building to which the above-door inscription refers. The same architects also designed the West Lodge...
Here he wrote "Ode to a nightingale" after falling in love with a neighbour's daughter, Fanny Brawne. Nice post on a visit here from Spi...
In our picture the blue plaque is above the orange barriers and the Coopers' Hall memorial is on the low wall to the left, in front of a ...
