Erection date: 10/11/2018
Joseph Beck, 1828 - 1891, Chairman of the Clissold Park Preservation Committee who spearheaded the campaign (1886 - 8) to save Clissold Park from development, lived in Barton House which stood on this site.
London Borough of Hackney
N16, Albion Road, 233
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Joseph Beck at Barton House
The house is said (Hackney Gazette) to have been named for Joseph Beck's gran...
Saving Clissold Park have some lovely old photos of this man but they have es...
Built as Paradise House, or Newington Park House, in the late 1700s for Jonat...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Joseph Beck at Barton House
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
Beryl Brownsword, architect & conservationist, lived here, 1922 - 2007. Bedford Park Society
From BCS: "We had to do Sid twice because the first plaque was stolen; the second was placed much higher up the wall!"
Spot the plaque – it can be seen to the right, above the boarding.
This page of Pepys' Diary is given at The Diary of Samuel Pepys with lots of explanatory links.
The plaque is located between the second and third windows on the first floor of this 1890s building. The Bromley Civic Society have ess...
Mentioned as early as 1077, the present church was built with funds left by Charlton House's owner Sir Adam Newton. Spencer Perceval is buried here.
Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996 Cecil Hepworth (1874 - 1953) British film pioneer, lived in this house as a child. In associ...
The Harmsworth plaque is inside the entrance lobby to the Museum, just to the right of our photo.
The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North Africa
Sculptor. Leonard Stanford Merrifield was born in Gloucestershire. After training he lived in London (and was based in Chelsea for at least some of the time). Speel reviews his work. His statue of ...
