Hobsons Place
This block was built in 1966 by the Greater London Council and was named after Hobson's Place, which was one of the streets the estate was built over; which had previously been called Pelham Place.
E1, Hanbury Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hobsons Place / Pelham Place
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Our map of 1837 shows a street called Pelham Street. Possibly this became Pel...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hobsons Place / Pelham Place
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
IanVisits posted about this gate and included a map showing where the Bridewell used to be.
This cast of characters also appear on the nearby St Paul's Choir school plaque, erected 5 years earlier when Claughton was still only a ...
Sir Osbert Lancaster, 1908 - 1986, cartoonist and writer, was born here. English Heritage
The large archway through which the piped river still occasionally flows into the Thames is actually slightly to the north-east of this p...
LCC Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (1697 - 1768), Venetian painter lived here.