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 ...
This is the second plaque we have found commemorating railings replacement. We are surprised that it has taken so long for this des...
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Field Marshal Viscount Gort VC, 1886 - 1946, Commander in Chief at Dunkirk, lived here, 1920 - 1926. English Heritage
The plaque is in a sheltered area just to the left of our main photograph. The quotation is an edited version of Isaiah 35:1, “The wilder...
