{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 ...
Unveiled on Windrush Day. A very simple design, we think the horizontal obeli...
The monument is very weather-worn but the two panels containing the names are...
The steps of the church are a popular meeting place for devotees of the brewi...
An earlier memorial had become indecipherable and was replaced by this one in...
These 3 figures are said to be modelled on the soldier poets: Robert Graves, ...
