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 ...
Trying to understand the right hand panel: the 'south vestry' is probably the small flat-roofed extension, similar to this one, but on th...
This plaque can be seen in our photo, slightly obscured by a satellite dish (oh, the irony). The day we visited was 15 April 2012, which...
The overflow pipe is not part of the memorial.
This plaque is in the inner north-east corner of the Hindle estate. See the Hindle House first plaque for more information.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his birth year as 1723.
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