{On three marble slabs attached to the base of the cross:}
To the honoured memory of those employees of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington who made the supreme sacrifice during two world wars, 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945.
E8, Mare Street, Hackney Town Hall
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hackney Town Hall Cross
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
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:
Hackney Town Hall Cross
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
The shield (showing the Port of London seal) above the text is surmounted by a galleon and supported on either side by gryphon-type creat...
The typeface used on the sides of the monument replicates that used in war-time ration books. The unveiling was one of the ceremonies to ...
The panel facing the road has no letters left at all, only the holes in which the letters were fixed but from these it is, surprisingly, ...
The motivating force behind this memorial, the first to the tragedy, erected 38 years after the event, was historian and writer Richard J...
This sculpture, 'Gilt of Cain', was unveiled by Bishop Tutu in commemoration of the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic sla...
Borough Tube Station This was a station of the City and South London Railway that opened in 1890. The line was the world's first undergro...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
{On the marble base:} To the sacred and loving memory of the Aloysians who gave their lives for their country in the Great War. 1914 - ...
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