{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 bronze relief depicts, in cross section, the interior of a submarine in which sailors carry out their work in cramped conditions. On ...
On site we thought there were only 2 inscriptions but IWM gives the text of 3. It seems likely that the 4th face also carried text origin...
Most war memorials at churches make some reference to 'members of this parish who fell' or have a list of the dead, or those who served. ...
Prior to the restoration of the station these memorials stood elsewhere. The war memorial was originally erected in the booking hall. One...
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