Corporation of London
The Great Synagogue, Dukes Place, constituent of the United Synagogue stood on the site adjoining from 1690 and served the community continuously until it was destroyed in September 1941 in World War II.
EC3, Dukes Place
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Great Synagogue, Dukes Place
This was not actually the first synagogue built after the Jews returned to En...
In 1290 Edward I expelled Jews from England and for centuries, apart from tho...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Great Synagogue, Dukes Place
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Chingford Mount Cemetery Developed in 1884 by the Abney Park Cemetery Company on land originally called "Caroline Mount", named after the...
The inscription is weather-worn particularly at the right so the words "men", "house", "at the", "Vicar" and "43" are all uncertain. Sta...
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.
The blue plaque was unveiled by Quant's son Orlando Plunkett Greene in September 2019 and by August 2020 it had been replaced with the pu...
Henry Labouchere, 1831 - 1912, radical MP and journalist, lived here 1881 - 1903. English Heritage
There are conflicting records as to this fireman's middle name, i.e. Roberto, Robert and Roberts. We have opted to use the more frequently recorded Roberto. Cecil Roberto Andreazzi was born on 3 N...
Cookery writer. Born as Elizabeth Gwynne into a wealthy family. Travelled in Europe and around the Mediterranean, spending some years in Cairo, where she married in 1944. Returned to England in 194...
His excellency Alfonso Lopez-Pumarejo, 1886 - 1959, ambassador to the court of St James's, twice president of the Republic of Colombia, l...
This terror attack involved vehicle-ramming and stabbing. A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then crashed on Borough High Street, just south of the River Thames. T...
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