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...
Henry Mayhew, 1812 - 1887, founder of 'Punch' and author of 'London Labour and the London Poor', lived here. London County Council
Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994), film and theatre director, critic and writer, ‘This sporting Life', ‘If', ‘The Whales of August', lived her...
City of Westminster Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzman, 1748 - 1798, Peruvian essayist, herald of Latin American Independence.
We were alerted to this plaque by The Express which had a photo (now, 2024, behind a paywall) from the unveiling and : "THE London Pallad...
Conductor Laureate, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, C. H., 1899 - 1970, was born here.
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
Founder of the Ardath Tobacco Company. Honorary Treasurer at the Royal Free Hospital in 1926. See Lord Riddell. Also helped fund the 1928 new extension for which the maternity section was named t...
Water colour painter. Born Orchard Street, in December 1767, the third son of George Barret (1732-1784) and Frances Barret née Percy, about four years after his father's arrival from Dublin. Two b...
In the 19th century Swan Wharf was the site of a brewery and public house 'Swan Inn', destroyed by fire in 1871. The image, an 1878 photo by William Reid, shows the tower of All Saints behind. Th...
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