{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Woolley London Regiment, 20th -21st April 1915
E2, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green Gardens
In our photo the plaque can be seen laid into the grass behind the pedestrian.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Geoffrey Woolley VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Born St Peter’s Vicarage in Bethnal Green, as Geoffrey Harold Woolley, the vi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Geoffrey Woolley VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
The Hackney Citizen reported that the names on the plaque are all "late African-Caribbean musicians with 'strong ties' to Hackney".
It is hard to understand how camouflaging a building could deter bombs, which by their nature do not discriminate in where they fall. We ...
Above the entrance at the left: "1883". above the two large windows: "Wesleyan Schools". Now, 2021, residential. The plaques, which we h...
We originally photographed this plaque in 2010. Returning in 2016, we found that the empty small white plinth to the right of the tree wa...
This plaque can be seen towards the left of our photo, on the brick upright.
“High tension” is the same as “high voltage” - dangerously high electrical energy which require particular safety measures.
In 1871 the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) suffered an attack of typhoid fever (the illness of which his father had died 10 years earlier) while at his home, Sandringham in Norfolk. To everyon...
Socialist and pacifist. Born Ada Brown at Raunds, Northamptonshire. She joined the West London Mission to work among the London poor, and in 1897 transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement, where she...
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